Vm: Bitwarden : should the home/bitwarden/bwdata/mssql/data folder be empty?

[peacock40]

Hi,
Thank you for making self hosting so easy! I have been using the nextcloud VM since a year with no problem. Yesterday I decided to also try bitwarden. As expected you made it easy to install!
While following the instructions to back up (given on bitwarden's website) I noticed that home/bitwarden/bwdata/mssql/data and home/bitwarden/bwdata/mssql/backup is empty. Should that be the case or am I trying to backup the wrong folders.
I would greatly appreciate your help
Thanks

[enoch85]

Hi!

Thanks for your feeback!

Actually, I'm not sure 100%, but it would be logic if they were empty as the data is saved in a container and not on disk afaik.

That's a choice we made to make it more stable.

I think @szaimen knows better than me.

[szaimen]

Yes, I think it makes sense that the folder is empty since we decided to use mysql in a docker volume:
https://github.com/nextcloud/vm/blob/748193cb18064af5ad19ecfc2a8ae64348e4b3c7/apps/tmbitwarden.sh#L160
you could check if the data that you are looking for is stored in the following directory:
/var/lib/docker/volumes/docker_mssql_data/_data

[peacock40]

Thank you for your help. I found the data under the directory you mentioned. I appreciate the help!

[enoch85]

@szaimen Maybe we should add an info box regarding that location?

[szaimen]

Yes, we could do that. What would be an appropriate place to do so? Maybe in the last msg_box?

[enoch85]

I can take care of it :+1: