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  • TK420@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I really like the idea of containers, it def solves my problems of running multiple services in the host OS. I’d like to build my own containers to pull the few “bare metal” services I’ll have outside of docker. Anyway, I’ll keep podman in the back of my head.

    One thing I’m already happy I did was create a docker directory and having sub directories keep all of my container volumes separate. Should make backing things up easier as well.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yeah, containers are great! It’s really nice knowing exactly which directories to move if I need to rebalance my services onto other hardware or something.

      Most of my services are on my NAS, so I have this setup:

      • /srv/nas/<folder> - everything here is on my RAID, and offsite backups look here (and exclude certain directories to save on cost
      • /home/<user>/containers - my git repo with configs, sans passwords/keys
      • configs w/keys live in my password manager

      Disaster recovery should be as simple as:

      1. Copy my data from backup into /srv/nas
      2. Clone my container repo
      3. Copy env files to their respective locations
      4. Run a script to get things set up

      I use specific container versions, so I should get exactly the same setup.

      I’m going to be reinstalling my NAS soon (boot drive is getting old), so we’ll see how this process works, though I’ll skip step 1 since I’m keeping the drives.