Restoring a database when using Docker
About this task
To restore a policy database in a Docker environment:
Steps
-
Locate the backup
.zip
file that you want to restore.The location should be a directory specified using the
PING_H2_BACKUP_DIR
environment variable, as mentioned in Policy database backups. -
Extract the
.zip
file to the database location that you will specify using thePING_H2_FILE
environment variable when you start the Docker container. -
Start the Policy Editor Docker container with a mounted volume that has the extracted backup file and use
PING_H2_FILE
to specify that backup file in the container file system.For example, the following command assumes the uncompressed database file is named
Symphonic.mv.db
in the host file system. ThePING_H2_FILE
environment variable specifies the file name without the.mv.db
extension.$ docker run --network=<network_name> --env-file ~/.pingidentity/config \ --env PING_H2_FILE=/opt/out/Symphonic \ --volume <HOST_BACKUP_DIR>:/opt/out pingidentity/{PAP_CONTAINER_NAME}:<TAG>
For proper communication between containers, create a Docker network using a command such as
docker network create --driver <network_type> <network_name>
, and then connect to that network with the--network=<network_name>
option.The Docker image <TAG> used in the example is only a placeholder.For actual tag values, see Docker Hub.