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Decrypt Backups

Overview

Cloudron supports encryption of backups with a passphrase. In this guide, we will see how to decrypt Cloudron backups on your laptop/PC.

Prerequisites

Have your PC/laptop setup with the Cloudron CLI tool. You can do this by sudo npm install -g cloudron.

Then, login using cloudron login my.example.com.

Download backup

This guide assumes you have the backup downloaded locally. If not, see this guide.

Decrypt

tgz

If the backup format is tgz, the download will be a single file with the extension .tar.gz.enc.

$ cloudron backup decrypt --password=passphrase backupid.tar.gz.enc backupid.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf backupid.tar.gz

rsync

If the backup format is rsync, the download will just be a directory.

$ mkdir /path/to/unencrypted
$ cloudron backup decrypt-dir --password=passphrase /path/to/encrypted /path/to/unencrypted