Data directory contains:
document.db- documentconfig.ini- instance level settings like port on which the Trilium application runsbackup- contains automatically backup of documentslog- contains application log files
Location
Easy way how to find out which data directory Trilium uses is to look at the "About Trilium Notes" dialog (from "Menu" in upper left corner):
Here's how the location is decided:
Data directory is normally named trilium-data and it is stored in:
/home/[user]/.local/sharefor LinuxC:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roamingfor Windows Vista and up/Users/[user]/Library/Application Supportfor Mac OS- user's home is a fallback if some of the paths above don't exist
- user's home is also a default setup for docker
If you want to back up your Trilium data, just backup this single directory - it contains everything you need.
Changing the location of data directory
If you want to use some other location for the data directory than the default one, you may change it via TRILIUM_DATA_DIR environment variable to some other location:
Linux
export TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=/home/myuser/data/my-trilium-data
Mac OS X
You need to create a .plist file under ~/Library/LaunchAgents to load it properly each login.
To load it manually, u need to use launchctl setenv TRILIUM_DATA_DIR <yourpath>
Here is a pre-defined template, where you just need to add your path to:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>set.trilium.env</string>
<key>RunAtLoad</key>
<true/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>launchctl</string>
<string>setenv</string>
<string>TRILIUM_DATA_DIR</string>
<string>/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/trilium-data</string>
</array>
</dict>
</plist>
Create a script to run with specific data directory
An alternative to globally setting environment variable is to run only the Trilium Notes with this environment variable. This then allows for different setup styles like two document instances or "portable" installation.
To do this in unix based systems simply run trilium like this:
TRILIUM_DATA_DIR=/home/myuser/data/my-trilium-data trilium
You can then save the above command as a shell script on your path for convenience.
Fine-grained directory/path location
It's possible to configure e.g. backup and log directories separately, with following env. variables:
TRILIUM_DOCUMENT_PATHTRILIUM_BACKUP_DIRTRILIUM_LOG_DIRTRILIUM_ANONYMIZED_DB_DIRTRILIUM_CONFIG_INI_PATH
If these are not set, default paths within the data directory will be used.