YOUR DATA

Back up and restore

Export every record, history and receipt, and restore it into an empty Gauge.

Your Gauge data lives on your computer. Export it to keep a copy, to move to another computer, or before you reset.

Export everything

Stop Gauge first, so nothing writes during the backup, then export:

Shell

rer dev --stop
rer export --output exports/gauge.rer

The archive holds every record, every revision history row, every receipt file and every import original, with an integrity receipt. It leaves out sign-in sessions, credentials and private settings. Keep it somewhere safe: it contains your rates and costs.

Restore into an empty Gauge

A restore only goes into an empty installation, and it refuses a damaged archive. On a fresh copy of Gauge, or after a reset:

Shell

rer import --input exports/gauge.rer --yes
rer setup --owner-email you@example.com
rer dev

Setup makes you the owner again, because sessions are never restored, and then you sign in as usual.

Reset

rer reset --yes removes this copy's local data, owner and settings. Export first if you want to keep anything.

Shell

rer dev --stop
rer export --output exports/gauge.rer
rer reset --yes