# Bolt Store

When Bindplane is configured to use Bolt Store as the storage backend, a [bbolt](https://github.com/etcd-io/bbolt) database on the filesystem is created. Bbolt is deprecated in favor of PostgreSQL. This documentation can be used when backing up your Bbolt based Bindplane installation.

### Backup

The Bolt Store database file is constantly written to. In order to guarantee consistency and avoid corruption of the backup file, Bindplane must be stopped before the database file can be copied.

```bash
sudo systemctl stop bindplane

sudo cp \
    /var/lib/bindplane/storage/bindplane.db \
    /var/lib/bindplane/storage/bindplane-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S').db

sudo systemctl start bindplane
```

After copying the database file, the storage directory will look something like this:

```
/var/lib/bindplane/storage
├── bindplane-2023-08-03_15:04:31.db
└── bindplane.db
```

It is recommended that the copied database files be moved to a remote system, such as a backup server or a secure object storage service like Google Cloud Storage or Amazon S3.

### Restore

To restore a backup of Bolt Store, use the following process:

1. Stop the server: `sudo systemctl stop bindplane`
2. Backup the current database file
3. Copy a previous database backup file to `/var/lib/bindplane/storage/bindplane.db`
4. Start Bindplane: `sudo systemctl start bindplane`


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