Mertn33

The last thing I want is database corruption. That is why I “docker compose down” before I make a backup then “docker compose up” when the backup is complete. Is that not good enough? Do I have to do something else?

My backup tooling just shuts down the container and associated db, then rysncs it all somwhere safe and restarts the container. Am I missing somethoing critical by not doing a db dump in the middle of that?

I do the same. If the docker container has problems with db I can just shut it down and fix the db from my desktop then start docker again. That has saved me starting again from scratch several times.