Before upgrading your instance, we strongly advise you to make at least a database backup. Ideally, you should make a full backup, including the database and the media files.
Docker setup
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If you've followed the setup instructions in :doc:`../installation/docker`, here is the backup path:
Multi-container installation
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Backup the db
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On docker setups, you have to ``pg_dumpall`` in container ``funkwhale_postgres_1``:
You may also want to backup your proxy configuration file.
For frequent backups, you may want to use deduplication and compression to keep the backup size low. In this case, a tool like ``borg`` will be more appropriate.