Docker image to backup your Docker container volumes

Why the name? Docker + Backup = Dockup

You have a container running with one or more volumes:

$ docker run -d --name mysql tutum/mysql

From executing a $ docker inspect mysql we see that this container has two volumes:

"Volumes": {
            "/etc/mysql": {},
            "/var/lib/mysql": {}
        }

Launch dockup container with the following flags:

$ docker run --rm \
--env-file env.txt \
--volumes-from mysql \
--name dockup tutum/dockup:latest

The contents of env.txt being:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<key_here>
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<secret_here>
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
BACKUP_NAME=mysql
PATHS_TO_BACKUP=/etc/mysql /var/lib/mysql
S3_BUCKET_NAME=docker-backups.example.com
RESTORE=false

dockup will use your AWS credentials to create a new bucket with name as per the environment variable S3_BUCKET_NAME, or if not defined, using the default name docker-backups.example.com. The paths in PATHS_TO_BACKUP will be tarballed, gzipped, time-stamped and uploaded to the S3 bucket.

To restore your data simply set the RESTORE environment variable to true - this will restore the latest backup from S3 to your volume.

Bucket naming guidelines: "Bucket names must be unique and should be DNS compliant. Bucket names can contain lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens and periods. Bucket names can only start and end with a letter or number, and cannot contain a period next to a hyphen or another period."

These rules are enforced in some regions.

AWS S3 Regions

To perform a restore launch the container with the RESTORE variable set to true