@@ -106,7 +106,15 @@ backup the database at any stage, run:
--password=DATABASEPASSWORD DATABASE > backup.sql
where ``DATABASECONTAINER`` is found by ``docker ps -a`` and the other settings
-are the same as those defined in ``patchwork/settings/dev.py``.
+are the same as those defined in ``patchwork/settings/dev.py``. To restore this
+again, run:
+
+.. code-block:: shell
+
+ $ docker-compose run --rm web python manage.py dbshell
+ mysql> use DATABASE;
+ mysql> set autocommit=0; source backup.sql; commit;
+ mysql> exit;
Any local edits to the project files made locally are immediately visible to
the Docker container, and so should be picked up by the Django auto-reloader.
If you back something up, you'd probably want to restore it soon enough too. Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru> --- docs/development/installation.rst | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)