[How-to] Restoring from backup when installed via Proxmox script (non-docker)

[mgrimace]

Hi,

Here's the steps I used to restore from backup.zip after installing changedetection.io as a Proxmox LXC using the wonderfully helpful Proxmox install scripts. Note there's already an entry in the wiki for restoring when changedetection.io is installed via Docker here.

Restore

• Create a backup.zip in the changedetection.io webUI
• Download and extract the backup.zip
• Create or recreate changedetection.io using the latest Proxmox install script
• Once created, stop the changedetection.io service on the LXC using systemctl stop changedetection
• I also stopped the browserless service just in case systemctl stop browserless
• Once, stopped, navigate to /opt/changedetection in the LXC, remove/replace the files there with the ones in your extracted backup.zip.
• Restart the changedetection.io services systemctl start changedetection and systemctl start browserless

Please note, I am a novice and if there's a better way to do this please feel free to share. I'm posting here because I couldn't find it anywhere, and figured it might help others. I personally used Termius SSH and SFPT for these steps, I'm sure more savvy users can do this more effectively. Devs please feel free to remove if this is a duplication of something obvious that I've missed, or if I've done something not-recommended here.