Grafana backup and restore problem

[cvaidya2017]

I have installed grafana in my ubuntu server. i am using zabbix data for plotting graphs. Now i simply want to backup grafana.db and grafana.ini and dashboards but it can’t let me do this. it give me below error.
Error: /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db: open for read: permission denied
Error: File transfer failed

permissions are as below in my ubuntu server.

drwxr-xr-x 4 grafana grafana 4096 Jan 23 09:15 grafana
-rw-r----- 1 grafana grafana 1212416 Jan 23 09:15 grafana.db
drwxr-x— 4 grafana grafana 4096 Jan 2 14:27 plugins
drwx------ 2 grafana grafana 4096 Jan 20 11:53 png

how can i do backup and restore grafana settings.

[wlargou]

Hi,

There are several ways you can perform backups, there are some that only copy the db and ini, and you could also use some python, check out :

ysde/grafana-backup-tool

Hope it helps.

Good Luck

[cvaidya2017]

@wlargou

n perform bac

i still get the same error. i can’t copy db and ini files

[wlargou]

Hi,

Did you try the operation with root user ?

Just to make sure if permission issues.

Hope it helps.

Good Luck