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     What about backups?
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+    <nav class="md-nav" aria-label="What about backups?">
+      <ul class="md-nav__list">
+        
+          <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#bind-mounts-default" class="md-nav__link">
+    Bind mounts (default)
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+  <a href="#volumes" class="md-nav__link">
+    Volumes
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     What about backups?
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+    <nav class="md-nav" aria-label="What about backups?">
+      <ul class="md-nav__list">
+        
+          <li class="md-nav__item">
+  <a href="#bind-mounts-default" class="md-nav__link">
+    Bind mounts (default)
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+  <a href="#volumes" class="md-nav__link">
+    Volumes
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 <p>All files are using the Unix format with <code>LF</code> line endings.</p>
 <p>Please do not use <code>CRLF</code>.</p>
 <h3 id="what-about-backups"><a class="toclink" href="#what-about-backups">What about backups?</a></h3>
+<h4 id="bind-mounts-default"><a class="toclink" href="#bind-mounts-default">Bind mounts (default)</a></h4>
+<p>From the location of your <code>docker-compose.yml</code>, create a compressed archive of your <code>./config</code> and <code>./data</code> folders:</p>
+<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>tar --gzip -cf <span class="s2">&quot;backup-</span><span class="k">$(</span>date +%F<span class="k">)</span><span class="s2">.tar.gz&quot;</span> config data
+</code></pre></div>
+<p>Then to restore <code>./config</code> and <code>./data</code> folders from your backup file:</p>
+<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>tar --gzip -xf backup-date.tar.gz
+</code></pre></div>
+<h4 id="volumes"><a class="toclink" href="#volumes">Volumes</a></h4>
 <p>Assuming that you use <code>docker-compose</code> and data volumes, you can backup the configuration, emails and logs like this:</p>
 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1"># create backup</span>
-docker run --rm -ti <span class="se">\</span>
-  -v maildata:/var/mail <span class="se">\</span>
-  -v mailstate:/var/mail-state <span class="se">\</span>
-  -v maillogs:/var/logs/mail <span class="se">\</span>
+docker run --rm -it <span class="se">\</span>
   -v <span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="nv">$PWD</span><span class="s2">/config&quot;</span>:/tmp/docker-mailserver <span class="se">\</span>
   -v /backup/mail:/backup <span class="se">\</span>
+  --volumes-from mailserver <span class="se">\</span>
   alpine:latest <span class="se">\</span>
   tar czf <span class="s2">&quot;/backup/mail-</span><span class="k">$(</span>date +%F<span class="k">)</span><span class="s2">.tar.gz&quot;</span> /var/mail /var/mail-state /var/logs/mail /tmp/docker-mailserver