How to update client running in docker?

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Hi,

I am using both urbackup server and a client in docker.
urbackup I can update safely due to bind mounted var folder.

However, the client does not seem to provide any mounts - so is it safe to update the docker container to a more recent version and it will somehow still keep the settings, or is there no way to do so (i.e. settings will always be removed when updating the container?)

Thanks

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Hey,

for me I never had any issues updating.

This is my compose file:

urbackup:
  image: uroni/urbackup-client:latest
  container_name: urbackup-client
  network_mode: host
  environment:
    - TZ=Europe/Vienna
    - URBACKUP_SERVER_NAME=<server-ip>
    - URBACKUP_CLIENT_NAME=<client-name>
    - URBACKUP_CLIENT_AUTHKEY=xVI2ArPCep
    - PUID=1000
    - PGID=1000
  volumes:
    - ../samba/data:/backup/samba:ro
    - /mnt/data-drive:/backup/data-drive:ro
    - ./postfilebackup:/usr/local/etc/urbackup/postfilebackup # a script that will run when the backup is done
    - ./data:/usr/local/var/urbackup/data/ # cache from the client

Although I don’t know if https://hub.docker.com/r/uroni/urbackup-client is doing the updating, last update was two years ago (but my container is on latest version regardless). It might do the updates internally, so a restart might already update it and you don’t need to pull anything / it may also do updates while it’s running. But would need uroni to confirm what exactly it’s doing.

Hope this helps regardless.

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