Add the status page to the backup.json file

[Urban-Hacker]

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🏷️ Feature Request Type

Other

🔖 Feature description

I had to restore recently my uptime kuma instance on a brand new installation. I though the .json backup was enough and yes it contains all the monitors but miss the status page which is a bit sad since it forces to manually recreate it.

✔️ Solution

Simply add dashboard info to the json to allow for quick restore

❓ Alternatives

Currently the main alternative is either a low level backup (backing up the database etc) or rebuilding the status page manually.

📝 Additional Context

No response

[tarun7singh]

If this issue is still up for grabs I would like to start work on it.
I might need a little bit of guidance on it.

[Computroniks]

@tarun7singh I don't see any pull requests for this and no one else has said that they are working on it so you might as well take a crack at it. I would recommend creating an empty commit using git commit -m "[empty commit] pull request for <YOUR TASK NAME>" --allow-empty before you start working as this will allow you to create a PR and get some assistance and feedback on your work.

[prof79]

This would be very much appreciated (y) Also had a corruption issue yesterday and re-creating a page with 140+ monitors is no fun. Especially, which would be stuff for other feature requests, since you can't sort or mass-move or mass-select stuff, adding monitors only honors the top-most group, ...

[kristiandg]

I vote for this one as well. A lot of design effort going into laying out the perfect status page, only to lose it would be a huge bummer. :)

[Drallas]

Is this still open?

[CommanderStorm]

Is this still open?

Yes, this is still an open issue. If you look at the json output of the status pages.

Contributions to #2667 are likely welcome.
Currently, the PR is not blocked on functionality/implementation but on testing
⇒ if somebody wants to help @chakflying, this would be appreciated

[chakflying]

Obsolete as the backup feature has been dropped in #3892.

[CommanderStorm]

Chiming in with a more in-depth explanation:

Please see #2141 (comment)

In 1.18.3, the backup feature was deprecated due to [being left] unmaintained.

Backup & Restore with JSON has been deprecated and issues will not be fixed due to the amount of problems it has been causing for our users and us.
The current design is just not maintainable, causing countless bugs.
In v2.0 the deprecated backup tool is being removed because of this reason.
Please consider using SQL, API based¹ or infrastructure based² backup instead.

New approaches to these features should use SQLite dump or MariaDB dump respectively. (Here is our contribution guide)

You can subscribe to these issues meanwhile:

• Use two different database files for config and history #2496
• Automatic / periodical backups #477

Footnotes

1. using the third-party API: https://uptime-kuma-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ↩

2. see https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma/issues/477#issuecomment-1557966187 for a setup example ↩