Export before anything irreversible
Cleaning up orphaned languages, deleting a series of events, handing the group to someone else - all of them are easier to be relaxed about with a fresh archive on disk. It costs one click.
Exporting your data
The export is a ZIP of your group's data, downloadable at any time, importable into a self-hosted MeetAgain. It exists so that staying is a choice rather than a consequence.
The Export tab
Export in the group settings is a single button and a list of what comes out. There is nothing to configure and no waiting - it builds the archive and hands it to you. It is worth taking one occasionally even if you have no intention of leaving; a copy of your own content is a reasonable thing to have.
What the archive contains
- Group profile and settings
- The name, description, tags, visibility and the rest of the Group tab.
- All approved members
- The member list, without passwords or tokens. Enough to know who was in the group, not enough to sign in as them.
- All initial events with translations
- The events, in every language they were written in. Initial events are the ones you created; the occurrences a recurrence rule generated are rebuilt from the rule.
- All CMS pages and blocks
- The whole site: every page, every block, in every language.
- All referenced images
- The image files themselves, not just links to them. This is what makes the archive large and also what makes it usable.
Taking an export and using it
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Press Download Export
The ZIP is built and downloaded. Nothing changes in the group and nobody is notified.
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Keep it somewhere real
A copy on your own machine or in your own storage. An export sitting in a downloads folder is not a backup.
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Import it if you ever move
A self-hosted MeetAgain takes the archive under Admin, System, Import. The core is open source, so a self-hosted instance is a real option rather than a theoretical one.