vsnap

A command line utility to snapshot & restore docker volumes.

Useful during development for resetting database migrations, but also applicable for restoring the state of general Docker volumes.

Note: This is not intended as a backup solution.

Features

# Help
vsnap --help

# Snapshot volumes
vsnap create source-volume snapshot-a

# Optionally with compression
vsnap create --compression source-volume snapshot-b

# Restore
vsnap restore snapshot-a new-volume

# Optionally overwrite / reset old volume
vsnap restore snapshot-a source-volume

# List snapshot volume with sizes
vsnap list --size

Installation

Make sure to have at least Rust 1.85 installed as well as docker running with proper permissions for your local user.

cargo install vsnap

Demo