# Backup & Recovery
URL: https://docs.valsight.ai/backup-recovery/
Description: ON PREMISE This article applies only to Valsight On-Premise. Contact support for Cloud installations.
**ON PREMISE** This article applies only to Valsight On-Premise. Contact support for Cloud installations.

## Backup

A complete backup of the application consists of:

* Complete database
* conf/ directory for the database configuration
* Installation Files & License file

All user data is part of the database dump, Valsight does not store additional user files in its working directory.

## Recovery

To recover a previous backup:

* Drop & recreate the database from the backup
* restore the configuration
* make sure that the installation matches the version of the backup and that the license file is in the right place

## Examples

### Postgresql

#### Backup

```
pg_dump es-rest-service | bzip2 -c > “backup.sql.bz2“
```

#### Recovery

```
dropdb es-rest-service
```

```
createdb -O grails es-rest-service
```

```
bunzip –c backup.sql.bz2 | psql es-rest-service
```