How Tos

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Table of contents

• Stop containers during backup
• Automatically prune old backups
• Receive notifications
• Run custom commands during the backup lifecycle
• Restore volumes from a backup
• Encrypt backups using GPG
• Encrypting backups
• Trigger a backup manually
• Set the timezone the container runs in
• Define different retention schedules
• Handle file uploads using third party tools
• Run multiple backup schedules in the same container
• Set up Dropbox storage backend
• Use with Docker Swarm
• Use a custom Docker host
• Use with rootless Docker
• Use the image as a non-root user
• Replace deprecated BACKUP_FROM_SNAPSHOT usage
• Replace deprecated exec-pre and exec-post labels
• Update deprecated email configuration
• Replace deprecated BACKUP_STOP_CONTAINER_LABEL setting