Options available to any installation of paperless:
- Use the [document exporter](#exporter). The document exporter exports all your documents,
- thumbnails and metadata to a specific folder. You may import your
- documents into a fresh instance of paperless again or store your
+ thumbnails, metadata, and database contents to a specific folder. You may import your
+ documents and settings into a fresh instance of paperless again or store your
documents in another DMS with this export.
- The document exporter is also able to update an already existing
export. Therefore, incremental backups with `rsync` are entirely
### Document exporter {#exporter}
-The document exporter exports all your data from paperless into a folder
-for backup or migration to another DMS.
+The document exporter exports all your data (including your settings
+and database contents) from paperless into a folder for backup or
+migration to another DMS.
If you use the document exporter within a cronjob to backup your data
you might use the `-T` flag behind exec to suppress "The input device