https://github.com/discordianfish/docker-backup

Tool for backing up docker volume / data containers
https://github.com/discordianfish/docker-backup

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Tool for backing up docker volume / data containers

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/discordianfish/docker-backup
• Owner: discordianfish
• License: apache-2.0
• Fork: true (wyaeld/docker-backup)
• Created: 2014-11-10T23:44:44.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-07-09T14:57:12.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T03:22:33.826Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 29.3 KB
• Stars: 340
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 51
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# Backup and Restore Docker Volume Containers

This tool gets the [volume container](http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/working_with_volumes/#creating-and-mounting-a-data-volume-container) of a given container and writes the volume container's json and all volumes found to a tarball.

After that, this tool can be used to restore a volume container from that tarball.

Let say you have a container named `mysql-data` to keep `/var/lib/mysql`. You start up your mysql server by running:

    $ docker run --volumes-from=mysql-data --name mysql-server ...

Backup that data container:

    $ docker-backup store mysql-server-backup.tar mysql-server

Restore it on a new system:

    $ docker-backup restore mysql-server-backup.tar

For general documentation on how to use volume containers, see:

http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/use/working_with_volumes/#creating-and-mounting-a-data-volume-container

For a more complete backup strategy built on top of docker-backup, look at https://github.com/discordianfish/docker-lloyd.

To run docker-backup itself as a Container, you need to bind-mount the Docker socket, Docker's data directory and point docker-backup via the `-addr` flag to the location of docker.sock within the container:

    $ docker run -v /var/run/docker.sock:/docker.sock \

         -v /var/lib/docker/vfs/dir:/var/lib/docker/vfs/dir dckr/docker-backup -addr /docker.sock ...

## Build

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go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep

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go build

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