Backing up and restoring Rocket.Chat? (Docker)

[dudanogueira]

Hi!

There is a nice post here on forums regarding this:

[HOW TO] Docker backup mongo

This question is asked frequently. How do I backup and restore a mongo DB in a docker container. We first need to find the container label. You may need sudo for the following commands. docker ps -a NAMES docker_mongo_1 So we need to do this: docker exec docker_mongo_1 sh -c 'mongodump --archive' > db.dump And in the current directory you should find db.dump Restore should be the reverse process: docker exec -i docker_mongo_1 sh -c 'mongorestore --archive' < db.dump This is quite a go…