Skip to content
Grav 2.0 is officially stable. Read the announcement →

Community guidelines

Please keep discussions civil and on-topic. Repeated violations may lead to a temporary ban.

General

What is the best way to back up a Grav site?

Started by Marcus 2 weeks ago · 5 replies · 38 views
2 weeks ago

I have a small Grav site with a handful of plugins and I want a simple backup routine. Is copying the user/ folder enough, or should I be using bin/grav backup? How do you all handle scheduled backups?

2 weeks ago

Maybe @admin can settle this — is bin/grav backup the blessed way, or is rsyncing user/ just as good in practice?

2 weeks ago

I run bin/grav backup from a nightly cron and rotate the archives weekly. Copying user/ works too, but the backup command also grabs your config and skips the cache folders for you.

1 week ago

@Marcus said:

I have a small Grav site with a handful of plugins and I want a simple backup routine. Is copying the user/ folder enough, or should I be using bin/grav backup? How do you all handle scheduled backups?

Fascinating

1 week ago

This is a screenshot below.

CleanShot 2026-06-12 at 12.57.202x.png

Suggested topics

Topic Participants Replies Views Activity
General · by Jerry Hunt, 4 days ago
2 80 9 hours ago
General · by pamtbaau, 14 hours ago
1 51 14 hours ago
General · by Andy Miller, 1 day ago
0 44 1 day ago
General · by Marcel, 12 months ago
6 346 5 days ago
General · by Duc , 5 days ago
3 40 5 days ago