Hello, filestore is a folder where every documents like .pdf, .docs, .jpg are saved. In odoo, this kind of files has the data type of binary. Each database has their own filestore based on the name of the database.

The exact record of your database is saved inside the postgresql database. Those records are connected to filestore, but the way they are stored is different, based on explanation above.

In order to backup and restore your database, you need to dump that postgresql record and copy the filestore along with the dump result. If you wish to restore database only with the filestore, unfortunately it cannot be done that way.

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Altela (altelasoftware.com)