WARNING: DOESN'T BACKUP FILES

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WARNING: DOESN'T BACKUP FILES

Tiebe opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

This did NOT backup my (in this case: homeassistant) files!! I lost hours of work just because of this. Leaving this warning out here so others don't do the same as me!

Christian Muehlhaeuser · Answer 1 · Sat Feb 20 2021 23:36:35 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Could you try and be a bit more specific as to what happened - or what didn't happen?

Tiebe Groosman · Answer 2 · Fri Feb 26 2021 04:34:27 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I backed up using this tool, but it didn't backup my files, maybe I had to specify some kind of option so it would have outputted a jar instead of a json file. The only thing it did was output a json and a .files file, but when restoring, it restored to container with the same settings, but did not restore the files.

Christian Muehlhaeuser · Answer 3 · Sun Feb 28 2021 07:22:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm truly sorry that you lost some of your data, but this is actually well documented in the README:

This will create a .json file with the container's metadata, as well as a file containing all the volumes that need to be backed up with an external tool like restic or borgbackup.

If you want to directly create a .tar file containing all the container's data, simply run docker-backup with --tar.