how extensive are backups?

[SolarSimon]

Hey there, I'm a bit confused, which leads to my question.
Just made some carefree experiments, the app does not contain sensitive data, anyways cloudron says there are full backups.

So I played around with SSO within the app rocket.chat. Apparently it's not working properly, I'm locked out now. As I said, I was a bit carefree, cus of the backups.

I restored backups, tried them all, I'm still locked out. Which leads me to the question: Whats happening here? Cloudron Docs say Backups are Snapshots. So I should be able to move back to configuration some ours ago. I'm really confused now and worried about my other apps backups.

I am sure you can make my worries disappear...

[girish]

@solarsimon Yes, the backups are complete and they store the exact state of the app when the backup was taken.

One thing is:

1. You have a backup
   1.1 <time passes>
2. You make a bunch of changes to the app
3. You restore to the backup in step 1. It will only restore to the state in step 1. This means that you will lose not only the changes in step 2 but also during the "1.1" time.

A good approach is to take a backup before making changes. That essentially captures the full state of the app. Including code, database, files etc.

With that information, I don't know if this is relevant to your situation though. Can you tell us a bit more about what you were experimenting with SSO and what is not working?

[SolarSimon]

thanks for quick reply.

I followed this guide
https://meta.discourse.org/t/rocket-chat-sso-embed-plugin-for-discourse/199450
Where it says to turn of registration and login form. Pretty sure that fault is not about cloudron...

After I failed there, I went to restore rocket.chat, but login form is still gone.

About SSO I guess it failed, because user exist in both apps (discourse and rocket) with different password.

[mehdi]

@solarsimon Dumb question but ... have you tried in another browser, just to make sure it's not a cache problem ?

[SolarSimon]

@solarsimon said in how extensive are backups?:

I am sure you can make my worries disappear...

@mehdi said in how extensive are backups?:

@solarsimon Dumb question but ... have you tried in another browser, just to make sure it's not a cache problem ?

no words. It had to be that simple.
solved, or better erase