Kevin McConnell 2d749057f9 Add ONCE backup and restore hooks
By default, ONCE pauses the application container when taking a backup.
This guarantees a consistent snapshot of the data, but for a large
installation and/or a slow destination path (like a network mount), that
pause could be a bit disruptive to live traffic.

But ONCE also support a pause-free path: if a `pre-backup` hook is
present in the container, ONCE will run that and skip the pause. So by
supplying necessary hooks, we can avoid any disruption from backups.

- `pre-backup` runs the existing script/admin/prepare-backup, which uses
  SQLite's online backup API to get a consistent snapshop.

- `post-restore` moves our snaphotted file back into place, and removes
  the orphaned sidecar files
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Campfire

Campfire is a web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you'd expect, including:

  • Multiple rooms, with access controls
  • Direct messages
  • File attachments with previews
  • Search
  • Notifications (via Web Push)
  • @mentions
  • API, with support for bot integrations

Running your own Campfire instance

Campfire's Docker image contains everything needed for a fully-functional, single-machine deployment. This includes the web app, background jobs, caching, file serving, and SSL. You can use our pre-built image at ghcr.io/basecamp/once-campfire:latest, or build your own from this repo.

Deploying with ONCE

The easiest way to self-host Campfire is with ONCE. It will guide you through the initial set up and then keep your instance up to date automatically.

If you don't already have once installed, run this on the machine you want to run Campfire on:

curl https://get.once.com | sh

once will launch as soon as the install is finished.

Choose Campfire from the list of applications, follow the instructions, and ONCE will take care of the rest.

If you prefer the command line to the dashboard, you can deploy directly:

once deploy ghcr.io/basecamp/once-campfire --host chat.example.com

Deploying with Docker

If you'd rather run the Docker image yourself, you can read more about that in the self-hosting guide.

Tip

When you start Campfire for the first time, you'll be guided through a wizard to create an admin account. The email address that you enter for the admin account will be visible on the sign-in page, it's there so that people have someone to contact if they need help with their account. If that bothers you, put in any email address you want and create yourself a new admin account.

Development

You are welcome - and encouraged - to modify Campfire to your liking. Please see our development guide for how to get Campfire set up for local development.

Security

See SECURITY.md for how to report a vulnerability and a description of our trust model.

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