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by mikestorrent 47 days ago
Why use a docker volume? Seems like a good way to accidentally lose your files. Just volume-mount from the external filesystem and back it up the same way you would any linux application's files - maybe stop it, maybe not, depends on how it uses files.
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Docker volumes still exist on the filesystem. Wouldn't one be able to point the backup solution at that directory?
It's nice to be able to survive someone purging Docker by accident, and it's nice to know `/wherever/you/like` is where your files are instead of in `/var/lib/containers/some long hash/`