Warda-DNS Warda: from ward — to protect, guardian
v0.9.10

Updates and backups

Warda updates itself at night and keeps encrypted backups: two settings of System to check once.

01The updates

Installed with a package or the Raspberry Pi image, Warda looks for a new version every 6 hours and installs it once a night between 02:00 and 05:00, only when it is signed by its publisher. If the new version does not start, the old one comes back by itself. In System you can turn this off, Check now or update at once; the image of the Raspberry Pi also installs the security fixes of its system.

Install on a Raspberry Pi

02The backups

Download a backup now gives a copy at any time.

  1. 1In System, choose a Backup password and keep it safe: without it, no backup can be restored.
  2. 2Every night at 01:30, Warda makes an encrypted backup of the accounts, the household, the devices, the rules and the settings (7 kept). The browsing history is never in it.
  3. 3Plug a USB drive formatted FAT or exFAT into the box: at 01:45 the backups are copied to it, in the folder warda-backups.

03With Docker

Warda installs nothing: it shows the new version in System, and you install it in the folder of the compose file. The copy to a USB drive is not done in Docker: download the backups yourself.

bash
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d

04Restore, or replace a box

Restore a backup in System, or I have a backup of Warda on the first screen of a new box, brings back the accounts, the settings and the name of the box. The plan stays with the box that has it: on a new box, confirm it in the customer area. Install the certificate of the block page again on the devices.

See also

Still stuck?

Tell us what happened, with the version of Warda: the form of the beta page reaches the team, or write to [email protected]. A diagnostic of System (Download a diagnostic, without any site visited) helps a lot.

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