Backup & Restore

Ensuring resilience and disaster recovery (DR) is critical for enterprise security infrastructure.

Backup Components

A complete Snapsec backup encapsulates:

Relational Database: Tenant configurations, user accounts, asset metadata, findings, and SLA history (PostgreSQL dump).
Object Store / Evidence Store: HTTP request/response payloads, screenshots, and PDF reports (MinIO/S3 bucket snapshot).
Configuration & Encryption Keys: Platform master secret key and environment configuration (.env).

Creating an On-Demand Backup

# On the Snapsec host
sudo snapsec-ctl backup --output /var/backups/snapsec/snapsec-backup-$(date +%F).tar.gz

# Verify backup archive integrity
sudo snapsec-ctl verify-backup --file /var/backups/snapsec/snapsec-backup-$(date +%F).tar.gz

Restoration Procedure

# Stop running services
sudo docker compose down

# Restore database and evidence volume
sudo snapsec-ctl restore --file /var/backups/snapsec/snapsec-backup-2026-11-09.tar.gz

# Start services and verify database schema
sudo docker compose up -d
sudo snapsec-ctl healthcheck

Architecture

Core Concepts

Administration

Operations

Backup Components

Creating an On-Demand Backup

Restoration Procedure

​Backup Components

​Creating an On-Demand Backup

​Restoration Procedure

Backup Components

Creating an On-Demand Backup

Restoration Procedure