Backup and Import to a New Environment¶

The steps below show how to backup and import to a new environment.

Export:
1. On the source system, create a remote backup location:
  
  backup add remote <URI>
  
  For example:
```
backup add remote sftp://sftpusr:sftpusr@172.29.41.107/remote
```
  Backups to sftp require ssh key-based authentication to be set up. Refer to SSH key management for further details.
2. Create a localbackup:
  
  backup create localbackup
3. List backups to get the date:
  
  backup list
4. Export the local backup to the remote destination (created by backup add remote), for example:
```
backup export localbackup remote 2015-06-01 12:58
```

Import:

From the SFTP server, scp the .tar.gz file to the new box, for example:

$ ls

  201506021224.tar.gz

$ scp 201506021224.tar.gz [email protected]:/opt/platform/admin/home/media/

Import the file as a localbackup, for example:

backup import localbackup media/201506021224.tar.gz

Restore the backup, for example:

backup restore localbackup 2015-06-01 12:58