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FYI, if you run vaultwarden using docker compose with your data volume as a folder, all you have to do is bring it down for like 1minute, make a backup of the folders, and bring it back up. I use a cron script to do this nightly. When my vps host went out of business, I restored my docker folder to a new vps and was up and running again in a couple minutes. Also, you could easily restore it to a virtual machine, if you like. Docker with compose is extremely portable.
Stupid q but why is the stop/start necessary? I'm running VW (and a dozen other things) thru docker on a synology dsm and it performs backups daily+monthly. Is it actually necessary to stop the container just to copy it?
I've read that best practice is to do a database dump, in addition to backing up all the data files. It's my understanding that there's a slight chance of corrupting something in the database if you don't stop the service first, since something could be changed while you're doing your backup.
The easiest solution for me, as well as for being able to just restore my files and start the service again somewhere else, is to stop, backup, and restart. It's down for less than 5 minutes while i'm asleep. If I expected better uptime than that I wouldn't be trying to self host.