Restore InfluxDB in Docker
It is not easy to restore influxdb in an official container. Unfortunately it is not possible directly. You need to restore db out of a container and mount restored db to the container.
# Restoring a backup requires that influxd is stopped (note that stopping the process kills the container). docker stop "$CONTAINER_ID" # Run the restore command in an ephemeral container. # This affects the previously mounted volume mapped to /var/lib/influxdb. docker run --rm \ --entrypoint /bin/bash \ -v "$INFLUXDIR":/var/lib/influxdb \ -v "$BACKUPDIR":/backups \ influxdb:1.3 \ -c "influxd restore -metadir /var/lib/influxdb/meta -datadir /var/lib/influxdb/data -database foo /backups/foo.backup" # Start the container just like before, and get the new container ID. CONTAINER_ID=$(docker run --rm \ --detach \ -v "$INFLUXDIR":/var/lib/influxdb \ -v "$BACKUPDIR":/backups \ -p 8086 \ influxdb:1.3 )
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