Backup container¶

Summary

Stop and rename the pmm-server container.
Take a local copy of the pmm-data container’s /srv directory.

Important

Grafana plugins have been moved to the data volume /srv since the 2.23.0 version. So if you are upgrading PMM from any version before 2.23.0 and have installed additional plugins then plugins should be installed again after the upgrade.

To check used Grafana plugins:

docker exec -it pmm-server ls /var/lib/grafana/plugins

To backup container:

Stop the container:
```
docker stop pmm-server
```

Move the image:

docker rename pmm-server pmm-server-backup

Create a subdirectory (e.g., pmm-data-backup) and move to it:
```
mkdir pmm-data-backup && cd pmm-data-backup
```
Back up the data:
```
docker cp pmm-data:/srv .
```

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