Backup and restore

RelyAI protects your setup automatically. Every time you run an in-place update it first takes a snapshot of its own configuration, so a bad update can never lose your engines, keys or flags. This page explains what's in a snapshot, where it lives, and how to roll back.

RelyAI → Settings → Integrity & Updates

Automatic snapshot before every update

Before applying any update, RelyAI snapshots only its own configuration tables — your settings, your engines, your feature flags and the integrity baseline. It never touches AcelleMail's own tables, and it never includes the AI request or usage history.

The snapshots appear on the Integrity & Updates tab under Database snapshots, listed by Version, Taken, Size and a Download link. RelyAI keeps the N most recent snapshots and prunes older ones automatically, so the folder never grows without bound.

Where snapshots are stored

Both the configuration snapshot and the code backup live under storage/app/relyai-backups/.

These files hold secrets

A snapshot contains your license key and your engine API keys. RelyAI writes an Apache deny rule into the backups folder to block web access. If you run nginx — which ignores .htaccess — you must add an equivalent server-level rule yourself to deny access to that path.

On a standard AcelleMail install, storage/ sits outside the web root, so the folder isn't web-reachable to begin with — but confirm this on your own server layout.

Keep your normal AcelleMail backups too

Because these snapshots deliberately exclude the AI request/usage history, they are not a full backup of everything RelyAI stores. Keep your usual AcelleMail database backups so you can recover conversation and audit history if you ever need it.

Rolling back

There are two ways back to a known-good state:

• Automatic on a failed update. If an update can't complete, RelyAI restores the previous version and its configuration for you — no action needed. See Updating.
• Manual, from a snapshot. Open the Database snapshots list and use Download to grab the snapshot you want, then restore it into your database with your usual tools.

Related pages

• Updating — where the pre-update snapshot is taken
• File integrity — the baseline that's snapshotted
• Uninstalling — what is and isn't kept when you remove RelyAI
• Settings reference — the configuration that snapshots preserve