Sat.May 10, 2025

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Easy Automated Docker Volume Backups That Are Database Friendly

The Polyglot Developer

I recently picked up a Beelink EQR6 Mini PC to reduce some of the Docker stress on my aging Synology NAS. Since my Synology used the Btrfs filesystem, I never had to worry about file locks and corruption during a backup because that particular file system used copy-on-write (CoW). However, since I decided to use Ubuntu Server on my Mini PC and neglected choosing which filesystem I wanted to use, I ended up with ext4.

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Virtual Adrian Revisited as meGPT

Adrian Cockcroft

Staircase at a bookshop in Porto, lots of authors, not enough time to read them allPicture taken byAdrian Back in the 1990s I was the performance expert of last resort for Sun Microsystems, Id written the book Sun Performance Tuning, and people sent me a lot of questions. Then I went on vacation to Australia for a few weeks and was offline. When I came back I had a big backlog of email requests.