Hi all

I’m running several docker containers with local persistent volumes that I would like to backup. I haven’t found an easy method to do so.

What do you use / recommend to do that? AFAIK you can’t just rsync the volume directory while the container is running.

  • outcide@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Use bind mounts instead of docker volumes. Then you just have normal directories to back up, the same as you would anything else.

    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is your answer. It also has the benefit of allowing you to have a nice folder structure for your Docker setup, where you have a folder for each service holding the corresponding compose yaml and data folder(s)

    • Edo78
      1·
      1 year ago

      it’s better to stop the service mounting those volumes before backing them up or you may break something with hot backup