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Backing up a volume in Docker

DockerVolumes & StorageBackupadvanced

What this snippet does

Mounting both the volume and a host directory into a throwaway container makes backups simple.

Expected output

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48M pgdata.tar.gz

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