Backup & Restore

Create a backup

hmdb backup --out /backups

This compacts the WAL first, then creates a hypermeshdb_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.tar.gz archive.

Restore

hmdb restore /backups/hypermeshdb_20260409_120000.tar.gz --target /data/restored

Via REST API

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/backup \
  -H "X-API-Key: hmdb_adminkey" \
  -d '{"backup_dir": "/backups", "compact_first": true}'