Backup multiple databases?

[danielstonehouse]

Thanks for this great project - after some false starts with Google cloud have got this running well on a geographically local cloud service based on Jelastic, and I am getting performance equivalent to our in house DaVinci server.

I know it goes against the docker philosophy but I installed Rclone to the running image to schedule sending the backups to google drive, which works well.

I noted it's easy to add new databases from Resolve - hoping someone can point me towards how to add more databases to the backup cycle? Or, even better, would it be possible to use a wildcard to backup all existing databases? The db's could use the same user / password credentials if that makes the process easier.

[elliotmatson]

This is a good idea, this project uses this container for backups, and it looks like they have added the ability to backup multiple db's. I'll take a look at their implementation!

[danielstonehouse]

Forgot to thank you, and let you know I got this working!

I know it goes against the ethos of docker - but is there any way to add a database to the backup schedule - on a running docker?

[elliotmatson]

Like without restarting the container?

[danielstonehouse]

Yes

[elliotmatson]

I don't think so, but is there a particular reason you don't want to restart the container?

[danielstonehouse]

We're using the running container in production with several databases.

I've had to make some manual adjustments / installations to the running container (ie installing and configuring rclone)

It actually wouldn't be that much work - just thought there might be an easy way in the meantime