<![CDATA[Archive an app]]>HI,

It could be nice if we could archive an app and having possibility to reactivate it if we want. And it could be interesting to have a stop button to stop an app (we can do it with the CLI) when the load average is to high for example.

Ben

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1595/archive-an-appRSS for NodeMon, 13 Apr 2026 05:43:02 GMTThu, 22 Nov 2018 08:43:35 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:01:51 GMT]]>This discussion is continued at https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/12256/archiving-apps

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/93754https://forum.cloudron.io/post/93754Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:01:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:58:23 GMT]]>What might be more interesting is a UI feature or separate web app that can do the following:

  1. Download an App backup (archive)
  2. Upload/Restore an App backup
  3. Migrate an App to another Cloudron (wizard)
]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54420https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54420Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:58:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:59:04 GMT]]>@timconsidine Stop button is still very much there.

@ntnsndr When archived, does the app "disappear" from the main dashboard ? Or is there an "archived" state? (If so, it's no different from "stop")

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54411https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54411Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:59:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:46:24 GMT]]>@Benoit I'm a little confused. I'm on 7.2.5 and there is a stop button in the Uninstall section of the app settings. Has it disappeared in later versions ? I have not upgraded to 7.3.x yet.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54403https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54403Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:46:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:37:12 GMT]]>@nebulon Thanks for this. I think it would be great to have a "download archive" button on a per-app backup. That, or to have a kind of "cold storage" archive where the archived apps are no longer on the app menu.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54380https://forum.cloudron.io/post/54380Thu, 13 Oct 2022 15:37:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Tue, 18 May 2021 08:43:51 GMT]]>@jlx89 yeah, admins always have access to everything afaik

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31479https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31479Tue, 18 May 2021 08:43:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Tue, 18 May 2021 08:31:37 GMT]]>@nebulon Thanks for following up with me on this. So from a quick test run, I see that I am able to hide the apps using groups from general users. But as an admin, I assume I'm going to see the apps regardless, correct? It seems that way so far.

Thank you!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31478https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31478Tue, 18 May 2021 08:31:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Sun, 16 May 2021 19:22:25 GMT]]>@jlx89 I can see that feature being useful to have a proper overview of archived apps, rather than trying to workaround with existing paradigms. Stopping the app would keep the allocated resources like domain and ports bound to this instance as well. Depending on the use-case this may be good or bad. Generally I think you can achieve that already by keeping a copy of the apps last backup around on some other storage (this is quite easy with tarball backend)

Maybe we add some UI for this later, but this is not on our feature list for next release at least, so we can explore this first a bit further here, so any input is welcome.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31408https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31408Sun, 16 May 2021 19:22:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Sun, 16 May 2021 09:26:03 GMT]]>@jlx89 just change the visibility so only the owner user can see it? I do that with apps like OnlyOffice etc which can only actually be used in conjunction with another app.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31397https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31397Sun, 16 May 2021 09:26:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Sun, 16 May 2021 06:57:26 GMT]]>@atrilahiji No, we can stop the app but would like to hide it from view and then have the ability to restore it at a later date. We want to completely hide it from view until it's needed at a later date.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31394https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31394Sun, 16 May 2021 06:57:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Sun, 16 May 2021 06:48:44 GMT]]>@jlx89
Like this?
Screen Shot 2021-05-16 at 12.47.21 AM.png

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31393https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31393Sun, 16 May 2021 06:48:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Sun, 16 May 2021 06:46:02 GMT]]>@atrilahiji For example we have a few web apps deployed that were developed. We're no longer developing them at this time and would like to just archive them rather than deleting them. We may come back to them at a later date.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31392https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31392Sun, 16 May 2021 06:46:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Sun, 16 May 2021 06:39:16 GMT]]>@jlx89 What is the use case that isn't covered by the existing stop button?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31391https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31391Sun, 16 May 2021 06:39:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Sat, 15 May 2021 09:58:50 GMT]]>Hello,
I know this is an old topic, but I was wondering if this was still under consideration. The ability to archive apps and restore at a later date, would be great.

Thanks!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31380https://forum.cloudron.io/post/31380Sat, 15 May 2021 09:58:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:21:00 GMT]]>The latest release has a proper start/stop button in the Debug view.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/4873https://forum.cloudron.io/post/4873Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:21:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:48:25 GMT]]>good idea indeed, a pause or stop button would come in very handy sometimes.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/2602https://forum.cloudron.io/post/2602Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:48:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:44:22 GMT]]>Second that idea.
A manual "deactivate" / "archive" state would be great in case one expects to continue using an app later but rather deactivate for now for resources.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/2600https://forum.cloudron.io/post/2600Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:44:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:09:44 GMT]]>Perhaps in the future we could have a super administrator role level with more advanced features ?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/2599https://forum.cloudron.io/post/2599Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:09:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Archive an app on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:50:20 GMT]]>We used to have that button in the UI but we do not have an explicit "stopped by user" state, the platform would attempt to start all apps on reboot or such, in case an app was down for some reason. Maybe we should be adding a new explicit state for this archive feature? Generally we try to avoid cluttering the UI with such advanced features, but I think it makes sense for self-servicing the Cloudron better.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/2598https://forum.cloudron.io/post/2598Thu, 22 Nov 2018 12:50:20 GMT