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Backups

How DemoVexa backs up its database automatically, how to make a backup yourself, and how to restore one.

DemoVexa backs up its database for you every day you use it, and you can make a backup whenever you like. This page covers both, how to restore a backup, and when exporting a single project is the better choice.

#What a backup contains

A backup is a copy of DemoVexa's database: your workspaces, projects, briefs, scripts and ideas. It doesn't include the files in the data folder, such as voiceovers, uploads and renders.

#Automatic backups

While you use DemoVexa, it makes one automatic snapshot a day. Each one is named by its date, for example studio-2026-10-13.db.

#Make a backup now

  1. Open Settings → Database.
  2. Click Back up now.

This makes a backup named with the date and time. It's a good idea before a big change, such as moving the data folder or updating DemoVexa.

#Where backups are kept

Backups are saved in the backups folder inside the data folder. To find it, open Settings → Database and click Show in folder.

DemoVexa keeps the newest 10 backups and removes older ones. Settings → Database lists the newest 5, plus how many older ones there are.

Tip

To keep a backup for longer, copy it somewhere outside the data folder, such as another drive or your cloud storage.

#Restore a backup

Restoring replaces the current database with the backup. Anything you changed after the backup was made is lost.

  1. Make sure no builds, renders or batches are running. Check the Activity page.

  2. Stop DemoVexa. In the DemoVexa folder, run:

    ./run.sh --stop

    On Windows, in PowerShell:

    .\run.ps1 -Stop

  3. Open the data folder (by default studio/storage in the DemoVexa folder).

  4. Copy the current studio.db somewhere safe, in case you want it back.

  5. Copy the backup you want from the backups folder into the data folder, and rename it to studio.db, replacing the existing file.

  6. Delete studio.db-wal and studio.db-shm from the data folder, if they're there.

  7. Start DemoVexa again with the launcher.

Watch out

Don't skip step 6. Those two files belong to the database you're replacing and can get in the way of the restore.

#Export a single project instead

A backup restores the whole database at once. To save or move one project, export it instead:

  1. Right-click the project's card on the Projects page, or open the project and use the ⋯ menu.
  2. Choose Export project….

You get one .demovexa file with the brief, script, voiceover, uploads, covers, posts and the animation's code. Tick Include the rendered videos to add them too, at a much larger size. Bring it back with Import on the Projects page; it goes into the current workspace. See Export and import.

Note

Export and import isn't included in the trial.

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