!/bin/bash #Author: Guido Diepen #Convenience script that can help me to easily create a gzip of a given #data volume. The script is mainly useful if you are using named volumes #First check if the user provided all needed arguments if [ "$1" = "" ] then echo "Please provide a source volume name" exit fi if [ "$2" = "" ] then echo "Please provide a destination volume name" exit fi #Check if the source volume name does exist docker volume inspect $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ "$?" != "0" ] then echo "The source volume \"$1\" does not exist" exit fi #Now check if the destination exists if [ ! -d "$2" ] then echo "The destination \"$2\" doesn't exist" exit fi echo "Copying data from source volume \"$1\" to destination volume \"$2\"..." docker run --rm \ -i \ -t \ -v $1:/from \ -v $2:/to \ alpine ash -c "cd /from ; tar zcvf \"/to/$1`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.gz\" ."