DockGuard: The easiest way to backup your Docker containers

But it runs on Node! And has fancy Unicode smiles in the code! Made with :love:!

haha, its hardly a backup if its not usable after you backed it up!

Judging from the [0] the guy is trying to do something to perform the backup of the services data in the container. It has it's uses, specifically if you need to restore data after a failed input or upgrade or whatever, especially if you use a named volumes.

But overall we are bestowed to watch, almost in real-time, some 21y/o guy implementing something he thinks is useful. *shurg_emoji*

https://github.com/daanschenkel/DockGuard/blob/main/engines/...

It's the dev cycle: "Hey look pure functional components... and now they also have state... and side effects!"

But you can take someone else's cattle, modify it and make a different cattle.

The whole point of container's overlay filesystem is that you can do stuff, take a snapshot so that you can always get back to this point, and then do something more without worrying about ruining all progress.

Looks like it can do a mysqldump. The project is ambitious and very young , but I feel like better backup systems exists for containers, especially if you look into the kubernetes world.