Multiple source directories - tag per dir?

[psyciknz]

Trying to get my head around various restic methods and containers.

I’ve got your container runnings and backing up all the container data I care about.
Just trying to see if I can add in other dirs on the host via mounts. It seems to work, and they all appear in my /mnt/volumes directory.

but wondering if I can get a tag per source dir, or if that means I would run a new container for each other dir I add in to the volume statement.

or do I just handle these externally from the containers entirely?

Many questions.

[djmaze]

@psyciknz Your question rather makes sense as a discussion, so I moved it here.

I am not quite sure what you mean with "a take per source dir". Could you elaborate?

[djmaze]

Of course, backing up directories of the docker host is how it is supposed to be used normally (and as I am using it myself as well). Only having different tags per source directory is not supported by Restic.

[psyciknz]

I think I might just spin up others for the other source directories.

Or call them from externaly via docker-compose command

[djmaze]

Yeah, that's also possible.

In theory we could allow defining several backup jobs per container, but I think most people do not need this and it is rather a special requirement which might overly complicate the script.

[psyciknz]

Thanks for the quick replies. I'll continue exploring.

I'm embarking on a windows to Linux migration. And restic seems to be the backup tool of choice

[djmaze]

Congrats for the good choice(s) :)