Restore Semaphore

Manual Restore

We haven't included a playbook in Semaphore to restore itself, because it's a bit like sawing the branch off that you're hanging from. To restore from your Semaphore backup, you can follow this process.

1. Start with a fresh install following the Deploy Semaphore Guide, except CTRL-C and exit the installation.
   
2. Search and replace the semaphore-netos-netops.sql file in the /netos/netos-netops/roles/semaphore-install/files with your SQL backup and restart the install using deploy.sh
3. Restore the tar.gz file to /netos/
4. Restore the tar.gz file to /etc/nginx
5. Restart the server and connect to Semaphore

Decrypting Backup Files

If you want to manually decrypt the enc files on your local workstation, use the following commands. 

openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -in BACKUP_FILE.enc -out OUTPUT.sql.gz/.tar.gz

You will need the password set in the Semaphore Backup Settings Semaphore environment variable ENCRYPTION_KEY.