[Podman] Re: podman container storage backup

On 1/28/22 15:12, Michael Ivanov wrote:

Greetings,

I make periodic backups of my laptop where I use some podman containers. To perform a backup I just invoke rsync to copy my /home/xxxx/.local/share/containers directory to nfs mounted filesystem. Containers are running, but quiescent, no real activity occurs.

Is this a correct way to back up or is there anything special about container directory to be taken into account? As far as I understand some hash-named subdirectories are shared between different containers and images using special kind of mounts, can this lead to duplicate copies r inconsistencies?

Underlying fs is btrfs.

Thanks,

I believe this should work fine.