Comment on How to access all files in docker volumes for backups?
bellsDoSing@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You didn’t mention how big those volumes are and how frequently the data changes.
Assuming it’s not that much data:
- use
tar
to archive each volume first, while using proper options to preserve permissions and whatever else is important for your usecase - use restic to backup those archives
- use a proper pruning strategy to not let your backups get too big:
- I’m not that familiar with
restic
, but maybe you can backup those archives separately and apply a more aggressive pruning strategy just for them - simply might be needed, cause deduplication (AFAIK) might not be that great with backing up archives
- but maybe if the volume data and the resulting archive doesn’t change that often, deduplication would be sufficient even with a not so aggressive pruning strategy
- I’m not that familiar with
gitamar@feddit.de 11 months ago
Restic uses smart Delta backups, creating a tar before the restic process would defeat the purpose. The permission issue is the same, as I need to have access to the Files either way.