Manual Backups

[p-karanthaker]

Hi, is there any way to trigger a backup manually?

[lloesche]

Yes, sending SIGHUP to the valheim-backup service or restarting the service will create a backup.
The PID of the running service can be found in /var/run/valheim-backup.pid

Assuming your container's name is valheim-server here's how both would work:

Sending SIGHUP using supervisorctl (the most graceful way of making a backup)

docker exec -it valheim-server supervisorctl signal HUP valheim-backup

Sending SIGHUP manually (as graceful as before but more "manual" work)

docker exec -it valheim-server bash -c 'kill -HUP $(< /var/run/valheim-backup.pid)'

Restarting valheim-backup (the more brute force way)

docker exec -it valheim-server supervisorctl restart valheim-backup

The restart can also be done from the supervisor web UI.

[p-karanthaker]

Amazing, this is really helpful! Thanks!