Volumes Backup and Share Extension

Important

The functionality in this extension is now available as a Beta feature in the Volumes tab of Docker Desktop in versions 4.29.0 and above. This extension will be deprecated once the features are out of Beta. Learn more

🚀 This extension was originally created by Felipe Cruz

Features

• Export a volume:
  • To a compressed file in your local filesystem
  • To an existing local image
  • To a new local image
• To a new image in Docker Hub (or another registry)
• Import data into a new container or into an existing container:
  • From a compressed file in your local filesystem
  • From an existing image
  • From an existing image in Docker Hub (or another registry)
• Transfer a volume via SSH to another host that runs Docker Desktop or Docker engine.
• Clone a volume
• Empty a volume
• Delete a volume

Installation

The recommended way to install the extension is from the Marketplace in Docker Desktop. You could also install it with the Docker Extensions CLI, targeting either a published released (e.g. 1.0.0) or branch (e.g. main):

  docker extension install docker/volumes-backup-extension:main

Run Locally

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/docker/volumes-backup-extension.git

Go to the project directory

  cd volumes-backup-extension

Build the extension

  docker build -t docker/volumes-backup-extension:latest .

Install the extension

  docker extension install docker/volumes-backup-extension:latest

Developing the frontend

  cd ui
  npm install
  npm start

This starts a development server that listens on port 3000.

You can now tell Docker Desktop to use this as the frontend source. In another terminal run:

  docker extension dev ui-source docker/volumes-backup-extension:latest http://localhost:3000

In order to open the Chrome Dev Tools for your extension when you click on the extension tab, run:

  docker extension dev debug docker/volumes-backup-extension:latest

Each subsequent click on the extension tab will also open Chrome Dev Tools. To stop this behaviour, run:

  docker extension dev reset docker/volumes-backup-extension:latest

Acknowledgements

• Vackup project by Bret Fisher
• Building Vackup - LiveStream on YouTube