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S. IfrahDeploy Containers on AWShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5101-0_9

9. Backing Up and Restoring Your Containers and Hosts on Amazon AWS

Shimon Ifrah1 
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Melbourne, VIC, Australia
 

In this chapter, you will focus on backing up and restoring your Docker container hosts and containers. Backing up your data and making sure the backup is working is a critical part of maintaining your environment. Neglecting this part of deployment can result in failing to restore services when needed and thus directly impact the applications and the business.

The best rule I have developed over the years is to configure a backup on any production system before it is moved to production. Ignoring this rule can lead to delays in enabling backups ...

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