From 188f8ad284738160a3f4e5f97f230caa54864b70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ulf Gebhardt <ulf.gebhardt@webcraft-media.de>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:31:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] describe how to backup the database (#314)

---
 backend/README.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/backend/README.md b/backend/README.md
index 94039570..0c917ee9 100644
--- a/backend/README.md
+++ b/backend/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ npx directus-sync push \
   --directus-password admin123
 ```
 
+## Backup Database
+Either keep a copy of the `/data/database` folder or run the following command to get an sql dump
+
+```
+docker exec -t utopia-map-database-1 pg_dumpall -c -U directus > dump.sql
+```
+
 ## Access Data on local drive
 
 In order to access the postgress data mounted to the local drive at `/data/database` you need to make it accessible (assuming you are not root):