How to backup on MacOS Docker?

[FuadEfendi]

Hello,

I am trying to setup DEV environment on MacOS and I need backup/restore; so far I only found this useful script to get Linux VM shell:

docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack/nsenter1

Appwrite is installed in /var/lib/docker/overlay2/

I found some examples how to do backup, but those require "navigate to the Appwrite directory" ???
https://gist.github.com/stnguyen90/fee636ff652b8ecbf761935b2aa254fb

Please help

[stnguyen90]

Duplicate of #3722

[stnguyen90]

@FuadEfendi, so the install command you ran should have created an appwrite folder with the docker-compose.yml and .env file.

[FuadEfendi]

/usr/src/code/appwrite

@FuadEfendi, so where you ran that install command, there should be an appwrite folder with the docker-compose.yml and .env file.

I used "Spotlight Search" to find all docker-compose.yml files created today, and I found only one which I explicitly downloaded. I assume other one was created (repeating) in Linux VM, volume "$(pwd)"/appwrite:/usr/src/code/appwrite:rw, but I could not find it.

Docker on MacOS has very special architecture, it cannot natively run containers, all containers are run in Linux VM, this is command to get terminal session (this one is simplest):

docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack/nsenter1

After that, I couldn't find any '/usr/src/code' in it; this VM probably was not designed for such filesystem surfing.

[stnguyen90]

@FuadEfendi, perhaps your spotlight didn't index the file? 🧐 Here's the output of my installation on my Mac:

[FuadEfendi]

Thank you for trying to reproduce!

I tried too, it worked this time. And I found appwrite folder created 9 hours earlier today (by guessing "where I was in the morning?"), somehow Spotlight doesn't index system-created files; manually downloaded one was instantly indexed.

Difficult day for me ;) almost 9-hours for troubleshooting. I am very sorry I took your time too. I was just guessing this folder would be somewhere in standard places, such as '~/.docker', never thought it will be subfolder at the script execution directory.

[stnguyen90]

Mystery solved! 🎉 Ya...I don't trust spotlight's file search 😆

[tripolskypetr]

If you facing the 500 Internal Server Error while using AppWrite Cloud data migration, that json-per-document migration tool will be quite useful