Where is my bwdata dir self-hosted bitwarden

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I’m unable to find where my ./bwdata dir is to backup.

Background:
My IT person who installed bitwarden self-hosted instance has left my small business. My instance has been running fine but now my updated mobile IOS app gives me an error, which is likely that it’s not compatible with current installed bitwarden. It’s been installed for about 3yrs and I have not updated.
I’m trying to follow instructions provided to update but first need to backup my data. Am having difficulty finding the ./bwdata dir to perform necessary backup steps.

Clearly my self-hosted server is running as I can navigate to my server over https and login. It is running in a docker container on my server, but when i go to /srv/vaultwarden/ here is what I see:

[...]/srv/vaultwarden$ ll
total 4852
...
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root        4096 Sep  1  2022 attachments/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root        1551 Sep  6  2022 config.json
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root      753664 Oct 31 10:47 db.sqlite3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root       32768 Dec 26 12:37 db.sqlite3-shm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root     4120032 Dec 26 12:37 db.sqlite3-wal
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root       20480 Dec 26 12:37 icon_cache/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root        1675 Sep  1  2022 rsa_key.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root         451 Sep  1  2022 rsa_key.pub.pem
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root        4096 Sep  1  2022 sends/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root     root        4096 Sep  1  2022 tmp/

Please advise how I might proceed to find the data that needs to be backup before I update.
What else can I tell you?

Thanks in advance

OS: Ubuntu 22.04
docker container tag: vaultwarden/server
image info vaultwarden/server@sha256:28e916391e7aac016f4f8124be3846d523df42a8fe37d4c409590030933a5323

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A few things:

  1. Vaultwarden is not a Bitwarden product. Vaultwarden requests that you reach out to them for support.

  2. You might want to occasionally create exports/backups of your vault, as a contingency plan incase something happens to your vaultwarden. I do this even when hosted in the cloud.

  3. If you no longer have a staff dedicated to managing the server and keeping it current, you might consider importing the above exports into vault.bitwarden.com, which is maintained at a current level by professionals. Or, if you truly prefer vaultwarden, https://www.vaultwarden.net/.

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@timbo Welcome to the forum!

Vaultwarden is not supported by Bitwarden, as it is an independent product. From time to time, there will be compatibility issues between the official Bitwarden client apps and the Vaultwarden server, when Bitwarden implements changes to its own server software (which have not yet been mimicked by the Vaultwarden devs).

It is generally not possible for members of the Bitwarden community (users or developers) to help with such issues, but Vaultwarden has its own community spaces where you can seek support:

 

Vaultwarden developers have clarified their position on providing support for Bitwarden client incompatibility issues in the notice at the top of the Vaultwarden project’s GitHub README:

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