seafile docker - how to persist config/make container disposable

Question

I'm building a seafile docker based on https://github.com/JensErat/docker-seafile and https://github.com/foxel/seafile-docker , but can't figure out exactly where's all the configuration seafile uses.

Note I'm going with sqlite installation, not mysql. There's a conf directory in the installation dir, but that alone can't be it. Data dir can be easily externalised using docker volumes. Same could be done with conf dir, but as I said, this alone can't be enough.

So, question is - how to make seafile docker disposable? As in if docker container gets wiped, how to re-set it up so the already existing data and settings could be used?

Answer 1

Don't know how I managed not seeing the documentation on the backups: https://manual.seafile.com/maintain/backup_recovery.html

Apparently you need to make backups of the sqlite db files (assuming you're on sqlite3 installation, not mysql) and the whole data dir.

So there's not a really clean way of doing what I'm trying. Guess I'll put the whole seafile installation and data files to a volume that can be used with a dummy docker container. This way the whole setup can be easily backed up as well.