Moving UrBackup from a service to Docker container

[Threeeye]

Hi guys,
I have UrBackup install on my OMV4 as a service (omv-extras plugin), I want to move it into docker.
Any suggestions on how to do it without losing my configs, clients and backups?

Thanks

[OnlyMe]

Hi,

Am not able to help on this, but just replying to get updates - as am contemplating doing this for my Linux host, but am still [too much of] a noob to know what I’m doing…at least for now…

[Threeeye]

@OnlyMe, good to know I’m not alone in this…
And just FYI, you don’t need to reply to a post to get updates on it…
On the bottom of the post there is a ComboBox that you can set from Normal to Watching, you will get notification on each reply…

[DrRSatzteil]

I also thought about doing this but haven’t had the time to actually try it. I would start by mounting config and Backup folders as volumes in the container and see what happens. However I always get confused with the folders since I also run a urbackup client on the same host and there are just so many urbackup folders… This is the main reason why I haven’t tried it yet however I think it would be relatively easy to figure out which folders are required.

[macom]

Have you seen this?

Docker: How to setup server with previous installation?

Hi, I’m using uroni’s Docker container on Openmediavault 5 (amd64). From the previous installation of urbackup as plugin in OMV4 I have existing backups and the database on a btrfs filesystem, which I like to use in the container. I’ve bound the backups folder to /backups and the database folder to /var/backup with write access (I think). When starting the container, I get Raising nice-ceiling to 35 failed. (errno=1) 2020-07-07 22:25:11: Starting HTTP-Server on port 55414 2020-07-07 22:25:11…

I use UrBackup alongside OMV5. No issue. It is the only service I did not move to docker.
The plugin in OMV4 did not do anything else than installing UrBackup and setting the path.

But also nothing wrong with running UrBackup in docker.

[Dixxy]

It is actually very easy to move your docker installation from service to docker.

If you are using omv5, install docker and portainer with omv-extras. In portainer you can install the urbackup docker image as a stack by using the docker-compose.yml from Docker Hub

Before builsing the stack, change the bindmounts so that it actually corresponds with the paths were you have your data.

I.e. you will want to adjust
volumes:
- /path/to/your/database/folder:/var/urbackup
- /path/to/your/backup/folder:/backups
# Uncomment the next line if you want to bind-mount the www-folder
#- /path/to/wwwfolder:/usr/share/urbackup

And then, once u open the Web-Gui adjust thr backup location to backups/. If you are having permission issues, adjust the UID and GID lines so they correspond to your settings.

Generally read the docker-compose.yml and it should all be quite self-explanatory. I migrated from urbackup as a service on fedora 27 kernel 4.18 to urbackup docker on omv5 (debian 10 / kernel 5.10)