Complete Export and Pallets

General
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I know there are already some posts here in this forum related to this.

But I found them all very old and it doesn't hurt to ask.

Recently I had to install every app I developed on a new server and I saw that the palettes don't go together and that's an extreme problem on the new server.

I know that all the references to the palettes are in the file: package.json

Even so, it doesn't hurt to ask: Is there any way through the interface to make a complete backup including the palettes?

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If the system you are copying to is identical to the original (hardware architecture, OS, nodejs version etc) then you should be able to copy the complete .node-red folder across and it should run ok. However, generally, you should copy everything except the node_modules folder. It is then simple to install all required nodes to the palette by going into the .node-red folder and running npm install.

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I've posted backup scripts before - they are mostly about doing mutli-level daily/weekly/monthly backups.

What to back up is really simple - at least for a full duplication. Everything in your userDir folder (normally ~/.node-red for the user id running node-red) except for the node_modules folder. As Colin says, that is recreated by running npm install after restoring the backup to a new folder.

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