1.0.9-x Pre-Releases

[ikluhsman]

v1.0.9-x and Docker Images

The releases in 1.0.9 are mostly pre-releases at this point.

We are going to drop the Docker images and support, I've been toying with this idea for a little while and it makes sense to run the tool as a bare-metal installation. Of course venv's can be created for managing Python dependencies.

The Docker Compose ability was intended to be appealing to the home-lab community who like to Containerize absolutely everything.

However, given the current roadmap, this is the reasoning of why we will be dropping Docker support by version 2.0:

• ZFS kernel modules are host-level — the container can't touch them
• Every zfs snapshot / zfs destroy call would need a host-side wrapper or privileged container workaround
• Bind mounts into a container on a ZFS pool work fine, but you lose the ability to do ZFS-native snapshots per target from within fsbackup scripts
• The fsbackup user/UID pinning, volume mounts, and extra_hosts workarounds all go away

I am apologetic to those die-hard Container freaks, that just have to have absolutely everything running in a container or VM.

Future Considerations

I've not explored these options carefully, but it seems doable from a conceptual standpoint.

NAS solutions like TrueNAS or VM solutions like Proxmox support is something we will consider later on (both running fsbackup from VM's or backing up VM's, architecture would still need planning for extending fsbackup to these platforms, while offering native ways to hook into API's and back them up as well (i.e. Snap-shots of Proxmox VM's).