How to Backup Memos User Data

StoneHoo Lv4
  2026-01-26 16:21:55 2026-01-26 16:21:55 Created   2026-01-29 05:38:08 2026-01-29 05:38:08 Updated    

I have been using memos[https://usememos.com/] for almost two years now. I write memos almost everyday. So there are a lot of data I do not want to lose, I have been thinking about backup my personal data just in case. But too busy to do it. Recently I am not that busy anymore. So I dig a little out about how to backup my personal data on memos. Thanks for the help of chatGPT which has made this process a lot of easier.

  1. SSH into my original server which is running my memos instance, in my case, it is running on my geekhh-nas.
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# stop the running memos instance
docker compose down
# go into the memos_prod.db dir
cd /parth/to/memos_prod.db
# tar the memos_prod.db file and send it to the new server
tar -czvf memos-data.tar.gz /path/to/memos_prod.db
scp memos-data.tar.gz stone@backup-server:/home/stone/docker/memos/memos
# untar the database file
tar -cxvf memos-data.tar.gz . 
# start the memos instance on the new server
docker compose up -d

The thing is all the stuff you need to backup is just the memos_prod.db file which is really simple. BUT you need to stop the instance and do the backup. That’s it.

  • Title: How to Backup Memos User Data
  • Author: StoneHoo
  • Created at : 2026-01-26 16:21:55
  • Updated at : 2026-01-29 05:38:08
  • Link: https://www.ozak.ca/2026/01/26/How-to-Backup-Memos-User-Data/
  • License: This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
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