Improve backup/restore documentation

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 1. Stop the Pleroma service.
 2. Go to the working directory of Pleroma (default is `/opt/pleroma`)
 3. Run `sudo -Hu postgres pg_dump -d <pleroma_db> --format=custom -f </path/to/backup_location/pleroma.pgdump>` (make sure the postgres user has write access to the destination file)
-4. Copy `pleroma.pgdump`, `config/prod.secret.exs` and the `uploads` folder to your backup destination. If you have other modifications, copy those changes too.
+4. Copy `pleroma.pgdump`, `config/prod.secret.exs`, `config/setup_db.psql` (if still available) and the `uploads` folder to your backup destination. If you have other modifications, copy those changes too.
 5. Restart the Pleroma service.
 
 ## Restore/Move
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 2. Stop the Pleroma service.
 3. Go to the working directory of Pleroma (default is `/opt/pleroma`)
 4. Copy the above mentioned files back to their original position.
-5. Drop the existing database and recreate an empty one `sudo -Hu postgres psql -c 'DROP DATABASE <pleroma_db>;';` `sudo -Hu postgres psql -c 'CREATE DATABASE <pleroma_db>;';`
-6. Run `sudo -Hu postgres pg_restore -d <pleroma_db> -v -1 </path/to/backup_location/pleroma.pgdump>`
-7. If you installed a newer Pleroma version, you should run `mix ecto.migrate`[^1]. This task performs database migrations, if there were any.
-8. Restart the Pleroma service.
-9. Run `sudo -Hu postgres vacuumdb --all --analyze-in-stages`. This will quickly generate the statistics so that postgres can properly plan queries.
+5. Drop the existing database. `sudo -Hu postgres psql -c 'DROP DATABASE <pleroma_db>;` 
+6. Restore the database schema and pleroma postgres role the with the original `setup_db.psql` if you have it: `sudo -Hu postgres psql -f config/setup_db.psql`. 
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+  Alernatively, run the `mix pleroma.instance gen` task again. You can ignore most of the questions, but make the password the same as found in your backup of `config/prod.secret.exs`. Then run the restoration of the pleroma role and schema with of the generated `config/setup_db.psql` as instructed above. You may delete the `config/generated_config.exs` file as it is not needed.
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+7. Now restore the Pleroma instance's data into the empty database schema: `sudo -Hu postgres pg_restore -d <pleroma_db> -v -1 </path/to/backup_location/pleroma.pgdump>`
+8. If you installed a newer Pleroma version, you should run `mix ecto.migrate`[^1]. This task performs database migrations, if there were any.
+9. Restart the Pleroma service.
+10. Run `sudo -Hu postgres vacuumdb --all --analyze-in-stages`. This will quickly generate the statistics so that postgres can properly plan queries.
 
 [^1]: Prefix with `MIX_ENV=prod` to run it using the production config file.