From 3026a405c831af7baff29c1079bdfe27b3fe892c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: CanbiZ <47820557+MickLesk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:47:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(paperless-ai): backup data and recreate venv during
 update (#9987)

---
 ct/paperless-ai.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ct/paperless-ai.sh b/ct/paperless-ai.sh
index 951e7ef39..40da19592 100644
--- a/ct/paperless-ai.sh
+++ b/ct/paperless-ai.sh
@@ -33,10 +33,23 @@ function update_script() {
     systemctl stop paperless-ai paperless-rag
     msg_ok "Stopped Service"
 
+    msg_info "Backing up data"
+    cp -r /opt/paperless-ai/data /opt/paperless-ai-data-backup
+    msg_ok "Backed up data"
+
     fetch_and_deploy_gh_release "paperless-ai" "clusterzx/paperless-ai"
 
+    msg_info "Restoring data"
+    cp -r /opt/paperless-ai-data-backup/* /opt/paperless-ai/data/
+    rm -rf /opt/paperless-ai-data-backup
+    msg_ok "Restored data"
+
     msg_info "Updating Paperless-AI"
     cd /opt/paperless-ai
+    if [[ ! -d /opt/paperless-ai/venv ]]; then
+      msg_info "Recreating Python venv"
+      $STD python3 -m venv /opt/paperless-ai/venv
+    fi
     source /opt/paperless-ai/venv/bin/activate
     $STD pip install --upgrade pip
     $STD pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt