DSocial is currently one huge canister. I’ve just checked it’s around 1GB in storage. I have no backup, so if anything goes wrong (I make a mistake) I lose everything. We are growing quite fast in the past few weeks so I want to make a backup of the data. I was thinking to build a backup/restore fu…

There’s some ideas in Canister backup , but we don’t have any actually good/convenient solutions at the moment

Hi Ashley, We have two approaches here at Distrikt and the first one is kinda universal if you already use the linear Stable Memory (SM) during your upgrades, and I assume you do, otherwise you’re doomed :sweat_smile: We are using Rust here, so I have no idea if you have the same access to the sta…

This is super helpful. Thank you.

We built one for Catalyze. Full back and restore application. Email me at ray@catalyze.one and we can help out. We need to get this out into the community. We will ask Dfinity about it and the best way to share it.

That sounds great. Ideally, we’d have a best practice article to be added here and an example application added here I’m available for support.

@jplevyak was so kind to write a best practice article on canister backup & restore from his experience building Factland. It’s not yet linked in the documentation, but I want to share it here: Factland/ic-factland/blob/main/backup/backup_restore.md # Backup and Restore of Data on t…

It would just be a whole lot easier if we could download our canister state. Happy to pay out the wazzu for cycles…it would just save so much time and heartache.

I think everyone agrees, so it’s not a question if this happens but rather when…

Sounds like good Motoko bounty material!

Any word on a backup/restore solution for Motoko?

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Alexandra September 18, 2023, 10:58am 12

Hi! There is a community discussion thread on canister backup and restore: Canister backup and restore [Community Consideration]. We would like to hear your thoughts there.

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