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+---
+slug: running-without-aws
+title: Running Docassemble without AWS and S3
+sidebar_label: Running Docassemble without AWS
+---
+
+## Motivation
+
+In most situations, we recommend that you follow ["Installing a Docassemble Server"](setup-server) and use a hosted
+virtual server with S3 compatible storage, which will give you more resilient servers and easier backups. If
+for some reason you need to host all of you servers on premises and cannot use cloud servers, this guide should
+be helpful.
+
+## Setup your Domain
+
+These are mostly the same steps from ["Choose a DNS Name"](setup-server#choose-a-dns-name) and ["Create an 'A' record"](setup-server#create-an-a-record-that-points-to-the-reserved-ip-address-in-your-dns-providers-website). If you are hosting your own servers,
+you will need to find out what IP address you have and point the 'A' record to that address.
+
+## Start the Docassemble server
+
+### Install Docker
+
+Even if you are running Docassemble on your own server, we still recommend that you use Docker
+to run docassemble. As described in [the Docassemble documentation](https://docassemble.org/docs/installation.html#docker), running Docassemble without Docker is a significantly complicated exercise, with multiple long-running and reoccuring processes, and there are not many benefits that you can get from doing it.
+
+So, the first step to starting the Docassemble server is to install Docker. This can follow the same steps from ["Install Docker"](setup-server#install-docker). If you are running on a different OS than linux, you should follow [Docker's official installation instructions](https://www.docker.com/get-started/).
+
+### Start Docassemble
+
+You can first create an `env.list` file, which should contain the following:
+
+```txt
+DAHOSTNAME=apps.example.com
+TIMEZONE=America/New_York
+USEHTTPS=true
+USELETSENCRYPT=true
+LETSENCRYPTEMAIL=apps@example.com
+DAEXTRAFONTS=false
+DAGOOGLEFONTS=false
+```
+
+Then, you can start Docassemble.
+
+```bash
+docker run -d -p 443:443 -p 80:80 -v dabackup:/usr/share/docassemble/backup --restart unless-stopped --env-file env.list --stop-timeout 600 --name docassemble jhpyle/docassemble
+```
+
+## Upgrading the Docassemble server
+
+The above command (specifically the `-v` argument) created a docker volume that saves all information from the `/usr/share/docassemble/backup` directory somewhere separate from the Docassemble container on your machine. To upgrade to a newer version of the Docassemble container, you can do so without any extra commands handling the data.
+
+```bash
+docker stop -t 600 docassemble
+docker pull jhpyle/docassemble
+docker rm docassemble
+docker run -d -p 443:443 -p 80:80 -v dabackup:/usr/share/docassemble/backup --restart unless-stopped --env-file env.list --stop-timeout 600 --name docassemble jhpyle/docassemble
+```
+
+## Saving Backup data
+
+All of the backup information is present in your Docker volume. If you want extra
+copies of that data to store elsewhere, you can use the following command while the 
+container is running.
+
+```bash
+docker cp docassemble:/usr/share/docassemble/backup .
+```
+
+The resulting directory, `backup`, will have folders named after
+each date when the backup was taken, and the server can be restored from
+at any time.
+
+## Restorting Backup data
+
+If you want to rollback to data from a certain date, first stop the existing
+Docassemble container, and create (but don't start) a new one:
+
+```bash
+docker stop -t 600 docassemble
+docker pull jhpyle/docassemble
+docker rm docassemble
+docker create -p 443:443 -p 80:80 -v dabackup:/usr/share/docassemble/backup --restart unless-stopped --env-file env.list --stop-timeout 600 --name docassemble jhpyle/docassemble
+```
+
+From there, copy the data from one of the dated backup folders into the main backup folder.
+
+```bash
+# Copy locally first: docker can't copy within the container
+docker cp docassemble:/usr/share/docassemble/backup/11-03 backup
+docker cp backup docassemble:/usr/share/docassemble
+```
+
+Then start the container.
+
+```bash
+docker start docassemble
+```

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