Exporting data

As a Upsun user, your code and data belong to you. At any time, you can download your site’s data for local development, to back up your data, or to change provider.

Before you begin

You need:

• Git
• A Upsun account
• Code in your project
• Optional: the Upsun CLI

1. Download your app’s code

Your app’s code is maintained through the Git version control system.

To download your entire app’s code history:

2. Download your files

Some files might not be stored in Git, such as data your app writes in mounts.

You can download your files using the CLI or using SSH.

3. Download data from services

The mechanism for downloading from each service (such as your database) varies.

For services designed to hold non-persistent data, such as Redis or Solr, it’s generally not necessary to download data as it can be rebuilt from the primary data store.

For services designed to hold persistent data, see each service’s page for instructions:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• InfluxDB

4. Get environment variables

Environment variables can contain critical information such as tokens or additional configuration options for your app.

Environment variables can have different prefixes:

• Variables beginning with env: are exposed as Unix environment variables.
• Variables beginning with php: are interpreted as php.ini directives.

All other variables are part of $PLATFORM_VARIABLES.

To back up your environment variables:

What’s next

• Migrate data from elsewhere into Upsun.
• Migrate to another region.
• To use data from an environment locally, export your data and set up your local development environment.