▲ 4 ▼ Backer - docker container backup.

github.com godoc.org goreportcard.com posted by hankmartinez 2206 days ago

Motivation

Think about a small company that have to build fast and easy realiable services for a intranet (eg. gitlab, jenkins ...) The fastest way is to deploy this services as a docker containers and manage them for example with a reverse proxy... Taking care about the backup system is an heavvy work, I ended up building this small utility. At this time I only need to do local backups for the active and running containers and their mounted volumes.

info command

I'm not sure about the info command, if it's worth and useful i will do it right :)

Usage

  backer [type] [flags]
  backer [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  info        retrieve informations about backups previously done
  list        list current available backups
  version     shows the version of the executable

Flags:
  -h, --help            help for backer
      --outDir string   output directory for saving backups (default "backup")

Examples

backer

backer full Executes a full backup for all active and running containers.

restore

Usage:
  backer restore [containerName] [revision] [flags]

Examples:
backer restore test 06.11.2018_16.03.48

▲ lolly 2201 days ago ▼

Not sure I understand the need for this - if you are using containers it should be for instances which can die and you don't care what happens to them after. People sometimes put stuff in containers that they shouldn't (document storage, databases), which would be better hand-managed or using a central service for.

Contributing