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title: Maintenance of the DP-SALA/D Stack
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# Maintenance of the DP-SALA/D Stack

Suggested maintenance for the DP-SALA/D Stack

## Required Maintenance for the DP-SALA/D Stack

**Debian 12:** :logos-debian:

- At least monthly, run a "`sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get update`" to update the base applications for Debian, this applies security and feature upgrades for your OS, which is important.

- At least bi-weekly, save all the configuration files and important data to a secure, private, personal location. You could even use the Google Drive :mdi-google-drive: space of the Gmail address that you setup, and save the previous backups. You could probably keep the last 5 backups just to be safe, but minimum of 3.

**Portainer:** :simple-icons-portainer:

- Update whenever there is an update. If you login and it tells you there is an update available, update right then and there. Portainer is just a docker container that lets you manage other docker containers, but make sure to keep this as up to date as possible.
- You generally don't have to keep a backup of the Portainer data volume, unless you've made some crazy modification to it's configuration that was different from the standard install.

**SWAG:** :simple-icons-linuxserver:

- At least monthly, restart the container. This allows it to pull new configurations from the GitHub :mdi-github: page, as well as renew your SSL certificates for your webserver.

**Authelia:** :simple-icons-authelia:

- At least monthly, restart the container. This allows it to pull updates for the container.  

::: warning
Make sure that your configuration for this is backed up, since multiple sensitive things are within this file, and recovering them will be impossible.
:::

**LLDAP:** :material-symbols-lock:

- This is probably the lowest maintenance thing out of the stack. Just make sure that it is backed up completely.

**Authy/Duo:** :logos-authy:

- Set it and forget it. This is typically included in Authelia :simple-icons-authelia:, so another reason to make sure that config file is completely backed up properly.