@cwdent rsync'ing or otherwise copying the database sounds good to me, in fact in production copying into bacula is what we do for backups (cc @CDanis for visibility)

It's almost certainly unnecessary with as little write traffic as our grafanas get, but what I've been doing for my own pre-version-upgrade backups is the following:

sqlite3 /var/lib/grafana/grafana.db ".backup $HOME/grafana.db.backup$(date +%F)"

This acquires a read lock on the database and guarantees you get something consistent.

@CDanis thanks! I will definitely use that trick.

Pretty sure everything is done here, I will close once the archive sync runs successfully.