Using bin/restore with the plone/plone docker image?

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I'd like to move from Vagrant to Docker containers when developing plone sites. Each of our production sites are backed up using the bin/backup command each night with the backup files uploaded to a backup server.

My old rutine for working on older sites was to grab the backup files (blobs and backups) and restore in a Vagrant VM. I'd like to loose a little of that overhead (and also try out docker more), but can't get my head around how I would go about restoring the backups into a docker container without having to rebuild a completely new image for each site.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated

2

There are 2 options here:

  1. You either put your filestorage and blobstorage on host and mount them within container at /data/filestorage and /data/blobstorage

docker-compose.yml

plone:
image: plone/plone
ports:

  • "8080:8080"
    volumes:
  • /var/local/filestorage:/data/filestorage
  • /var/local/blobstorage:/data/blobstorage
  1. Or use data-only containers and let Docker manage the storage and permissions:

docker-compose.yml

plone:
image: plone/plone
volumes_from:

  • plone_data
    ports:
  • "8080:8080"

plone_data:
image: busybox
volumes:

  • /data/filestorage
  • /data/blobstorage
    command: ['chown', '-R', '500:500', '/data']

See more Where to Store Data

3

The thing is though this requires me getting a copy of the blobstorage files and the filestorage files. bin/backup does not give me that.

bin/backup gives me var/blobstoragebackups and var/backups and these are not ready to run files so I have to import them.

I could use snapshotbackups but these can in some cases take of almost all the space I have on the production server.

4

Found a way to extract the data.fs file from my backup.

Installed Plone via pip install plone in a virtualenv. That gave me the repozo tool so I could get the data file out and then use the recipes you listed above.

5

But you already have the repozo tool within Plone Docker image. Thus, all you need to do is:

docker run --rm \
           -v /var/local/backup:/data/backup \
          --volumes-from=plone_data \
       plone/plone \
          bin/repozo -r /data/backup/ --recover -o /data/filestorage/Data.fs