I'm starting to get a nice setup with Docker Apps and suddenly realized its unprotected.  Is there a way to backup the docker configuration with an easy restore?  Is it as simple as just backing up the Docker container file?  Then restore if it fails?

 

And if that's possible, it would be interesting to have various configs available for testing.  i.e. I want to play around with different configs on a test server, once configured and saved, just copy the Docker app file reboot and now I have a different config?

 

Thanks!

I'm starting to get a nice setup with Docker Apps and suddenly realized its unprotected.  Is there a way to backup the docker configuration with an easy restore?  Is it as simple as just backing up the Docker container file?  Then restore if it fails?

 

And if that's possible, it would be interesting to have various configs available for testing.  i.e. I want to play around with different configs on a test server, once configured and saved, just copy the Docker app file reboot and now I have a different config?

 

Thanks!

Your docker configurations are stored on the flash drive at /boot/config/plugins/dockerMan/templates-user. These are the templates created when you add a docker, and if you ever need to you can start from scratch by selecting from the my-* templates and it will have all of the docker settings you used when you added that docker and the actual container code will be redownload. In fact, I recommend not backing up docker.img at all and just redownloading your containers.

 

You probably have an appdata share or something like that which contains each dockers "working data". For example, the plex library. It might be worthwhile to back that up. On the forum, there are several versions of a script people are using to backup their cache drive and you can even get something like that setup in cron so it will happen automatically. See search tips in my sig.