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It supports Ghost configured with either sqlite or mysql/[mariadb]. \n\nBy default it will create a backup of the ghost content files (images, themes, apps, config.js) and the database (actual posts) daily at 3am, keeping the most recent 30 backups.\n\n### Quick Start (Ghost using sqlite)\nGhost uses sqlite by default, if you have not changed the [configuration] to mysql.\n\nCreate and run the ghost-backup container with the volumes from your Ghost data container:\n\n`docker run --name ghost-backup -d --volumes-from bennetimo/ghost-backup`\n\nWhere:\n\n`` is either your Ghost blog container, or a separate data-only container holding your blog files. Basically, wherever your blog content lives.\n\nThat's it! This will create and run a container named 'ghost-backup' which will create a backup of your Ghost database and content files under /backups every day at 3am.\n\nSee below sections for customizing the backup.\n\n### Quick Start (Ghost using mysql/mariadb)\n\nIf your Ghost [configuration] is using mysql/mariadb then you just need to link in your mysql container when you create the backup container:\n\n`docker run --name ghost-backup -d --volumes-from --link :mysql bennetimo/ghost-backup`\n\nWhere:\n\n`` is as above\n`` is your mysql/mariadb database container for your blog\n\n> The linked mysql container needs to have the alias 'mysql' as shown.\n\nThe following environment variables should be set on the mysql container. ghost-backup will pick them up automatically through container linking so it can talk to the database:\n\n * MYSQL_USER\n * MYSQL_PASSWORD\n * MYSQL_DATABASE\n\n### Perform a manual backup\n`docker exec ghost-backup backup`\n\nThis will create an immediate backup. You should now have two archives created in the backup folder (/backups by default). One archive is the database, the other the ghost content files.\n\n>Note that backups are are tagged with the date and time in the form yyyymmdd-hhmm, therefore if two backups are created in the same minute then the second will overwrite the first.\n\n### Restore a backup\nA backup is no good if it can't be restored :) You can do that in three ways:\n\n#### Interactive restore\nYou can launch an interactive backup menu using:\n`docker exec -it ghost-backup restore -i`\nThis will display a menu with all of the available backup files. You can select which to restore by number or name. \n\n> Using interactive backup you can restore a DB archive separately to a Ghost files archive\n\n#### By date restore\nYou can also restore by date:\n\n`docker exec ghost-backup restore -d yyyymmdd-hhmm\nThis will restore the backup files (database and content) from yyyymmdd-hhmm, if found. \n\n#### By file restore\nYou can restore a given file mounted to the container:\n\n`docker exec ghost-backup restore -f /path/to/file/filename`\n\nGhost restore will treat filenames containing 'db' as database files, and filenames containing 'ghost' as archive files. \n\n#### In place restore\nBy default the restore script will remove the ghost files from `GHOST_LOCATION` before restoring the archive, except for the database which is handled separately. \n\nTo restore without removing files first you can specificy the command argument capitalised, e.g. `-I, -D, -F`.\n\n### Advanced Configuration\nghost-backup has a number of options which can be configured as you need. \n\n| Environment Variable | Default | Meaning |\n| --------------------- | ------------- | ----------------- | \n| BACKUP_TIME | \"0 3 * * *\" | A [cron expression] controlling the backup schedule.|\n| BACKUP_LOCATION | \"/backups\" | Where the backups are written to|\n| BACKUPS_RETAIN_LIMIT | 30 | How many backups to keep. Oldest are removed first|\n| LOG_LOCATION | \"/var/log/ghost-backup.log\" | Location of the log file |\n| GHOST_LOCATION\t\t| \"/var/lib/ghost\" | Location of ghost content and db files |\n\nFor example, if you wanted to backup at 2AM to the location /some/dir/backups, storing 10 days of backups you would use:\n\n`docker run --name ghost-backup -d --volumes-from -e \"BACKUP_LOCATION=/some/dir/backups\" -e \"BACKUP_TIME=0 2 * * *\" -e \"BACKUPS_RETAIN_LIMIT=10\" bennetimo/ghost-backup`\n\n> This example is for Ghost using sqlite. If you're using mysql/mariadb just add the linked mysql containers as described above.\n\n#### Disable backup types\n\nBy default, the backup will have a Ghost files archive, a DB archive, and purge any excess old backups specified by the `BACKUPS_RETAIN_LIMIT`. Each of these can be disabled with command arguments:\n\n * -F //Do not include a ghost files archive\n * -D //Do not include a DB archive\n * -P //Do not purge old files\n\nFor example to perform a backup of just the DB with no purge:\n\n`docker exec ghost-backup backup -FP`\n\n### Backup to Dropbox\nYou can configure the backup location as you wish, which if used in conjunction with [bennetimo/docker-dropbox] will backup to a [Dropbox] folder.\n\nTo do this, you need to have a dropbox container running, linked to your account:\n`docker run -d --name dropbox bennetimo/docker-dropbox`\n\n> You need to link this container to your Dropbox account first, see [docker-dropbox quickstart]\n\nThen create your backup container using the Dropbox volume:\n`docker run --name ghost-backup -d --volumes-from --volumes-from -e \"BACKUP_LOCATION=/root/Dropbox\" bennetimo/ghost-backup`\n\nThat's it. Now if your Dropbox container has been linked correctly to your account you'll have a backup of your blog added every day at 3am to your Dropbox. \n\n### View the logs\n`docker logs ghost-backup`\nWill display logs of all of backup runs (manual and automated) and restore operations. By default the log file is at: `/var/log/ghost-backup.log`\n\n### Disabling automated backups\nIf you want to disable automated backups and just perform them manually as necessary, then you can stop the crontab installation by starting your container as:\n\n`docker run -d --name ghost-backup --volumes-from -e \"AUTOMATED_BACKUPS=false\" ghost-backup`\n\nNow you can run:\n`docker exec ghost-backup backup`\n\nEvery time you want to take a backup. You can restore as normal (described above).\n\n### Using ghost-backup for cloning an environment locally\nYou can use ghost-backup to create a local test environment for your blog, with all the posts and content. \n\n1. Setup your dockerised ghost blog\n2. Setup the ghost-backup container on your blog as described in this readme, with e.g. Dropbox as the backup location\n3. Create a local dockerised ghost blog\n4. Link and run the ghost-backup container restore script once to populate your local blog\n\n### Other Info\nWhen using sqlite, the backup/restore is handled using the [command line shell] of the [online backup API].\n\nWhen using mysql/mariadb, the backup/restore is handled using mysqldump. You should use InnoDB tables for [online backup].\n\nThis container was inspired by [wordpress-backup]\n\n [Docker]: https://www.docker.com/\n [Ghost]: https://ghost.org/\n [cron expression]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Format\n [Dropbox]: https://www.dropbox.com/\n [bennetimo/docker-dropbox]: https://hub.docker.com/r/bennetimo/docker-dropbox/\n [docker-dropbox quickstart]: https://github.com/bennetimo/docker-dropbox#quick-start\n [configuration]: http://support.ghost.org/config/#database\n [mariadb]: https://hub.docker.com/_/mariadb/\n [command line shell]: https://www.sqlite.org/cli.html\n [online backup API]: https://www.sqlite.org/backup.html\n [online backup]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/mysqldump.html\n [wordpress-backup]: https://hub.docker.com/r/aveltens/wordpress-backup/\n","has_starred","hub_user","immutable_tags_settings",{"_75":11,"_76":77},"enabled","rules",[78],".*","is_automated","permissions",{"_82":22,"_83":11,"_84":11},"read","write","admin","user","storage_size",284668603,"orgData","recentTags",[91,129],{"_92":44,"_93":94,"_95":96,"_97":98,"_99":100,"_50":118,"_119":94,"_120":33,"_121":56,"_57":122,"_123":124,"_125":109,"_126":118,"_127":66,"_128":22},"content_type","creator",244581,"full_size",92266484,"id",32110430,"images",[101],{"_102":103,"_104":105,"_106":107,"_108":109,"_110":111,"_112":113,"_114":107,"_115":-5,"_116":96,"_63":66,"_117":-5},"architecture","amd64","digest","sha256:5ca23e143e8f5a2ebe4ac5d4745b59235bf17c3b921a91b7d35700a766b16cac","features","","last_pulled","2026-10-29T21:56:20.217266089Z","last_pushed","2018-08-01T11:39:42Z","os","linux","os_features","os_version","size","variant","2018-08-01T11:39:41.040489Z","last_updater","last_updater_username","media_type","latest","repository",5809778,"tag_last_pulled","tag_last_pushed","tag_status","v2",{"_92":44,"_93":94,"_104":130,"_95":131,"_97":132,"_99":133,"_50":139,"_119":94,"_120":33,"_121":56,"_57":140,"_123":124,"_125":136,"_126":139,"_127":66,"_128":22},"sha256:b73fc83cdcf15acebe3cebf1de8fd084c08c994dccc4cf4c476d9c8d039f4c9c",116344476,390895136,[134],{"_102":135,"_104":130,"_106":107,"_108":136,"_110":137,"_112":113,"_114":107,"_115":-5,"_116":131,"_63":66,"_117":138},"arm64","2026-10-30T04:51:16.678228759Z","2023-02-20T17:08:15Z","v8","2023-02-20T17:08:14.407107Z","4","sbxKitMetadata","isPotentialSpam","isHubSbxKitsEnabled","showSbxRunInCloud","showSbxLogoOverride","sbxTrademarkText","displaySecurityMetadata","tagAttestations","tagsHaveAttestations",[],"selectedTag","attestationsUrl","routes/_layout.r.$namespace.$reponame.tags",{"_38":155,"_162":163,"_149":176,"_177":11},{"_40":156,"_42":157,"_45":46,"_47":48,"_49":11,"_50":51,"_52":53,"_54":158,"_57":35,"_32":33,"_58":59,"_60":44,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":66,"_67":-5,"_68":62,"_69":70,"_71":11,"_72":33,"_73":159,"_79":22,"_80":161,"_85":33,"_86":87},[],[44],[56],{"_75":11,"_76":160},[78],{"_82":22,"_83":11,"_84":11},"tags",{"_164":165,"_166":-5,"_167":-5,"_168":169},"count",2,"next","previous","results",[170,173],{"_92":44,"_93":94,"_104":130,"_95":131,"_97":132,"_99":171,"_50":139,"_119":94,"_120":33,"_121":56,"_57":140,"_123":124,"_125":136,"_126":139,"_127":66,"_128":22},[172],{"_102":135,"_104":130,"_106":107,"_108":136,"_110":137,"_112":113,"_114":107,"_115":-5,"_116":131,"_63":66,"_117":138},{"_92":44,"_93":94,"_95":96,"_97":98,"_99":174,"_50":118,"_119":94,"_120":33,"_121":56,"_57":122,"_123":124,"_125":109,"_126":118,"_127":66,"_128":22},[175],{"_102":103,"_104":105,"_106":107,"_108":109,"_110":111,"_112":113,"_114":107,"_115":-5,"_116":96,"_63":66,"_117":-5},[],"canDeleteTags","actionData","errors"]

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