Back up and restore Stackyard
In the admin: General, then Backup. See the Settings reference.
Stackyard’s whole configuration is one JSON file. Export and Import are under General.
Export
Section titled “Export”Downloads your configuration as stackyard-config.json, containing apps, folders, widgets, badges, and settings. Use it as a backup, or to move an install to another machine.
Import
Section titled “Import”Reads a file produced by Export. Stackyard shows how many items will be added, updated and deleted, says when settings will be replaced too, and asks you to confirm before writing anything. A file matching your current configuration changes nothing and says so.
An import replaces apps, folders, widgets, badges and settings. The password is never replaced. An export from an older release is upgraded as it is imported.
If the file names an uploaded wallpaper that this install does not hold, the current background stays.
After an import that replaces settings, reload the page before you change any settings. Until then, Settings shows the values from before the import.
What the volumes hold
Section titled “What the volumes hold”The config file lives on /data. Uploaded icons and stored wallpapers live on /icons. An export covers the config only, so back up both volumes to capture uploaded files.
A corrupt config
Section titled “A corrupt config”If the config fails to parse, or parses with the wrong shape, Stackyard copies it to apps.json.corrupt-<timestamp> and never overwrites the broken one. Each distinct breakage keeps its own backup. Sign-in and saving stay off until the file is fixed, and the dashboard shows the steps to fix it. See Stackyard cannot read its settings file.
Restoring an export brings back everything except the password. Set it again in General, Password Protection straight away.
Coming from another dashboard
Section titled “Coming from another dashboard”To import a gethomepage or Dashy config instead, see Import from Homepage or Dashy.