autorestic/docs/pages/location/docker.md

# Docker

autorestic supports docker volumes directly, without needing them to be mounted to the host filesystem.

```yaml | docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'

volumes:
  data:
    name: my-data

services:
  api:
    image: alpine
    volumes:
      - data:/foo/bar
```

```yaml | .autorestic.yml
locations:
  hello:
    from: my-data
    type: volume
    # ...
```

Now you can backup and restore as always.

```bash
autorestic backup -l hello
```

```bash
autorestic restore -l hello
```

The volume has to exists whenever backing up or restoring.