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This is a simple tutorial to get Rocket.Chat running on a Ubuntu Xenial 16.04 server.(You’ll likely be perfectly fine to run through the same process on a different Ubuntu version such as 18.04 if you’d prefer). In this case we’re installing this on a fresh server and we’ll be installing Rocket.Chat as a Snap and using Caddy as a reverse proxy. Caddy will also deal with issuing SSL certificates via Let’s Encrypt. With this you’ll be able to get Rocket.Chat up and running within ~10 minutes, from there you can go on and make further server configuration changes for security…

This is a simple tutorial to backup and restore, or backup and migrate a Snap based installation of Rocket.Chat. First you’ll need to stop the Rocket.Chat server. service snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-server stop Note that we’re only stopping the rocketchat-server service, not the MongoDB service, which should still be running. Check with: service snap.rocketchat-server.rocketchat-mongo status | grep -i active Active: active (running) (…) Create a backup. snap run rocketchat-server.backupdb # You should see output similar to this: [+] A backup of your data can be found at /var/snap/rocketchat-server/common/backup/rocketchat_backup_<timestamp>.tar.gz Download that backup file over SFTP for instance, or transfer it to the server you’re…