Is it necessary to stop homebox container for periodic backup?

[AD3man]

Hello,
if I want to have periodic backing up is it required to stop the docker container each backup?

[tankerkiller125]

To avoid database corruption, it is generally recommended to stop the container to make backups when using SQLite as the database backend (the default).

If your using a postgres database container it's also possible to use pg_dump in the container, put the output in a volume that the host can read, and backup that volume and then backing up the data volume for homebox that contains the attachments separately with no downtime at all.

[katosdev]

To add to this, you may wish to consider something like:
https://marshsecurity.org/backing-up-docker-volumes-with-ease/

Which may help with your backups.