Restore container¶

Summary

Stop and remove the container.
Restore (rename) the backup container.
Restore saved data to the data container.
Restore permissions to the data.

Important

You must have a backup to restore from.

To restore the container:

Stop the container.
```
docker stop pmm-server
```
Remove it.
```
docker rm pmm-server
```

Revert to the saved image.

docker rename pmm-server-backup pmm-server

Change directory to the backup directory (e.g. pmm-data-backup).

Remove Victoria Metrics data folder.

docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta rm -r /srv/victoriametrics/data

Copy the data.
```
docker cp srv pmm-data:/
```

Restore permissions.

docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R root:root /srv && \
docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R pmm:pmm /srv/alertmanager && \
docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R root:pmm /srv/clickhouse && \
docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R grafana:grafana /srv/grafana && \
docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R pmm:pmm /srv/logs && \
docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R postgres:postgres /srv/postgres14 && \
docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R pmm:pmm /srv/prometheus && \
docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R pmm:pmm /srv/victoriametrics && \
docker run --rm --volumes-from pmm-data -it perconalab/pmm-server:3.0.0-beta chown -R postgres:postgres /srv/logs/postgresql14.log

Start the image.
```
docker start pmm-server
```

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