# Dremio.exe windows backup & restore

**URL:** <https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-exe-windows-backup-restore/12025>\
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**Created:** [July 6, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-exe-windows-backup-restore/12025 "2024-07-06T04:18:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![ngodfrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecccb3/32.png) [@ngodfrey](https://community.dremio.com/u/ngodfrey)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-exe-windows-backup-restore/12025/1 "2024-07-06T04:18:22Z")

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Hi, new to Dremio and testing things out. Seems pretty cool so far. I’ve tried several setups with docker, but I’m running on windows and would prefer not to use docker. I found an exe…  
and I downloaded and installed the [dremio-community-LATEST.exe](https://download.dremio.com/community-server/dremio-community-LATEST.exe)

Everything seems to be running fine, but I’m a little confused on backup and restore process.  
Using wsl, i ran ./dremio-admin backup with user/pw and mnt directory, but received error ‘Error: Could not find or load main class Files.Dremio.lib  
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Files.Dremio.lib’  
How would you recommend backup and restoring on windows?

Thanks,  
Neil

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-exe-windows-backup-restore/12025/2 "2024-07-07T22:35:00Z")

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@ngodfrey What version of Dremio is this? Dremio on Windows was removed many versions back.

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**Author:** ![ngodfrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecccb3/32.png) [@ngodfrey](https://community.dremio.com/u/ngodfrey)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-exe-windows-backup-restore/12025/3 "2024-07-08T02:00:01Z")

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I don’t know. I found it here… [Index of community-server/](https://download.dremio.com/community-server/)  
So if windows isn’t maintained anymore, I’m assuming docker the recommended way? Is there a video of the back up and restore process with docker somewhere?

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-exe-windows-backup-restore/12025/4 "2024-07-10T05:51:39Z")

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@ngodfrey When you say docker, can you use Kubernetes based Docker?

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**Author:** ![ngodfrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecccb3/32.png) [@ngodfrey](https://community.dremio.com/u/ngodfrey)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-exe-windows-backup-restore/12025/5 "2024-07-10T21:33:17Z")

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No, docker installed on WSL would be ideal.

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-exe-windows-backup-restore/12025/6 "2024-07-12T15:02:28Z")

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@ngodfrey Backup will only work when Dremio is up and running. Just want to make sure, you did not bring down the docker instance and then tried the backup