Linux containers backup

Apps and Virtualization
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Hello guys,

Any news on containers’ backup on the next release? I’m on 25.10.2.1 - Goldeye but I don’t see how to do a backup of a specific container.

I see my containers under hidden datasets, but I can’t access them on snapshots or from the shell (unless I manually mount I suppose).

Please let me know if I’ve missed that function on the current release.

Thanks,

Al

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You need to configure them with host paths for persistent volumes and backup those.

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you didn’t miss anything, there is currently no backup solution for lxcs

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Ah … I assumed “container” == Docker.

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Sad. Running on TrueNAS makes access to the storage much faster. Thank you for your reply.

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Nop. We have been waiting for this and other basic features.

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It’s pretty simple really:

  1. Don’t use the “community apps”, because they suck for a lot of reasons. Just install Dockge or Portainer, and install all your apps in there, pointing straight to the official repos and not using some middleman.
  2. Set up a dataset on your NVMe drive(s), in /mnt/nvme_pool/apps, and create subdirectories in that for all your apps. (You can make some of these separate datasets if you want to have different configuration settings for them, such as record size or compression etc.)
  3. Set up this dataset (and any child datasets) to auto-replicate to another location, such as your HDD pool, every day or whatever frequency you like.
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OP didn’t mean docker container, he meant lxc container