[joshspankit]

To the author: thanks for all the work that goes in to sharing this. When people share with this much detail I always find at least a couple things that improve my setups.

Here are some I can share back:

- If you mount the data and config folders for a docker container you can skip backing up the container itself and back up the mounted folders with bog-standard backup tools. Recovery then means verifying the mount positions in the docker-compose file and running `up` on the new host

- When running cron (I also use separate cron containers as it’s been the cleanest and most stable solution), there are two handy tools:

  - have the cron container use the image from the application itself: `image: nextcloud-app:latest` (easiest if you use a Dockerfile for the “base” image, even if it only contains `FROM nextcloud:stable`)

  - use extension fields (https://stackoverflow.com/a/59796964)

[monstermunch]

Thanks for that Nextcloud tip!

For the containers, do you mean mounting them to a NAS? I already have them mounted locally on the VM so the files are easy to grab there, but I've never thought about mounting them on a NAS. I'll have to give that a think

[joshspankit]

You’re welcome

No not to NAS. To the local disk.

For example in Proxmox I have /media/ssd-storage/Containers/ where each subfolder is mounted to it’s VM (therefore isolated) and each VM’s docker-compose file brings in the volume mounts to it’s containers.

Then, all containers are backed up with a duplication of the ‘Containers’ folder. In a couple cases the container itself needs to be shut down in order to be backed up safely but those are few, far-between, and outdated.

[monstermunch]

Ah Gotcha, I'm already doing that in that case, I throw everything in /media/

Don't ask me why /media, I think I read a guide about 10 years ago for something in Linux that used /media and now I just default to that

[joshspankit]

I think Ubuntu used /media instead of /mnt. I also ended up using /media on all my Linux boxes after using Ubuntu foe a while. I’m also currently using /Volumes (mostly from services that were on OSX and configured before Docker was available).