Creating a Database Backup

This article provides step-by-step instructions for creating a backup for an on-premise instance.

1. Make sure that you configured mpctl to be globally available (see Installing Meisterplan).
2. Connect to the Meisterplan server and open a shell.
3. Execute mpctl backup. This will create a backup in the Meisterplan installation directory under data/backups/ using the current timestamp as a filename. Alternatively, you can specify the target path on your own via mpctl backup <target-file-path>.

We recommend that you create backups on a daily basis. You can use a cronjob to set this up.

Please note: You can only restore a backup with the Meisterplan version from which the backup was  created.