Guides
Guides for real infrastructure tasks
These guides cover the situations people actually need help with: cloning production to staging, creating real backups, restoring app state, and deploying safely to a VPS.
Staging and clone
Move production into staging, create realistic test copies, and verify target readiness.
Backup
Full backups, snapshot inventory, and backups that stay tied to real recovery.
Restore
Recovery paths, database verification, and checks that prove the target came back.
Deploy
VPS targets, environment-aware overrides, and deploy flows that verify the result.
Start here
Use the product path first, then drop into the individual problem pages
If you do not know the MoveStack workflow yet, start from download, read the reference model next, and use help for the exact operator steps.
Download and try the preview path
Start with scan, preview snapshots, and the free path before licensed operations.
Read the product model
See what is free, what becomes licensed, and how backup, restore, and staging stay connected.
Open the getting-started help
Quick start, auth, targets, and troubleshooting in one support surface.
Reference
Use the source models before the individual guides
If you need the product model first, these source pages explain how MoveStack thinks about backup, restore, and staging before you drop into a single problem page.
Staging and clone
Move production into staging, create realistic test copies, and verify target readiness.
Backup
Full backups, snapshot inventory, and backups that stay tied to real recovery.
Back up a Node.js app with a restore path you can actually trust
Create a real backup for a Node.js or Next.js app, keep timestamped snapshots, and hold onto a restore path you can verify instead of another archive you hope is enough.
Back up a Next.js app with a restore path, not just a deploy artifact
Create a verified full backup for a Next.js app so you can later restore, deploy, or clone it through the same MoveStack workflow.
Verify a backup before you deploy it into a real environment
Treat backup verification as part of the deploy path. Check that the snapshot can drive a real target workflow before you depend on it during recovery or rollout.
Restore
Recovery paths, database verification, and checks that prove the target came back.
Restore a PostgreSQL-backed Node app and prove the result afterward
Restore a PostgreSQL-backed Node.js app with service checks, app readiness, and database fingerprint verification in the same MoveStack workflow.
Restore a Node.js app from a full backup instead of stitching scripts together
Restore a Node.js app from a timestamped full backup snapshot, validate service state, and verify the database result in the same MoveStack workflow.
Restore a Next.js app on a VPS and verify the target before calling it back
Restore a Next.js app on a VPS from a full-backup snapshot or archive and verify service state, proxy reachability, and database integrity before the target is treated as ready.
Deploy
VPS targets, environment-aware overrides, and deploy flows that verify the result.
Deploy a Next.js app to a VPS without rebuilding the target by hand
Deploy a Next.js app to a VPS from a full backup snapshot or archive, with service checks, proxy status, and verification in the same MoveStack workflow.
Deploy a Node.js app from a backup instead of rebuilding the target from memory
Use a full-backup snapshot as the deploy input for a Node.js app so the target state, database state, and verification steps stay in one repeatable MoveStack flow.