**The old Postgres data directory is backed up** (by renaming to `/matrix/postgres-auto-upgrade-backup`).
It stays around forever, until you **manually decide to delete it**.
**The old Postgres data directory is backed up** by renaming to `/matrix/postgres-auto-upgrade-backup`, by default.
To rename to a different path, pass some extra flags to the command above, like this: `--extra-vars="postgres_auto_upgrade_backup_data_path=/another/disk/matrix-postgres-before-upgrade"`
The auto-upgrade-backup directory stays around forever, until you **manually decide to delete it**.
As part of the upgrade, the database is dumped to `/tmp`, upgraded and then restored from that dump.
To use a different directory, pass some extra flags to the command above, like this: `--extra-vars="postgres_dump_dir=/directory/to/dump/here"`