docker-volume-backup/README.md

Backup Docker Volumes to Local

goal

This script backups all docker-volumes with the help of rsync.

scheme

It is part of the following scheme: Further information you will find in this blog post.

Backup all volumes

Execute:

./backup-docker-to-local.sh

Recover

database

  docker exec -i mysql_container mysql -uroot -psecret database < db.sql

volume

Execute:

bash ./recover-docker-from-local.sh "{{volume_name}}" "$(sha256sum /etc/machine-id | head -c 64)" "{{version_to_recover}}"

Database

Debug

To checkout what's going on in the mount container type in the following command:

docker run -it --entrypoint /bin/sh --rm --volumes-from {{container_name}} -v /Backups/:/Backups/ kevinveenbirkenbach/alpine-rsync

Setup

Install pandas

Author

Kevin Veen-Birkenbach

• 📧 Email: kevin@veen.world
• 🌍 Website: https://www.veen.world/

License

This project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. The full license text is available in the LICENSE file of this repository.

More information

• https://docs.docker.com/storage/volumes/
• https://blog.ssdnodes.com/blog/docker-backup-volumes/
• https://www.baculasystems.com/blog/docker-backup-containers/
• https://gist.github.com/spalladino/6d981f7b33f6e0afe6bb
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26331651/how-can-i-backup-a-docker-container-with-its-data-volumes
• https://netfuture.ch/2013/08/simple-versioned-timemachine-like-backup-using-rsync/
• https://zwischenzugs.com/2016/08/29/bash-to-python-converter/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_backup#Incremental
• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/567837/linux-backup-utility-for-incremental-backups
• https://chat.openai.com/share/6d10f143-3f7c-4feb-8ae9-5644c3433a65