How I set up Kolab 3.2 in a Docker container

[Tobias Brunner]

Hi,

This is a very nice idea indeed!

>> Another issue to look at, which is a problem in both our attempts:
>> I was reading about data persistence: to store the data not inside the 
>> container, and therefore making the container replacable. It seems to 
>> store the data inside the container is not the docker way of doing 
>> things. See also this thread: 
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/docker-dev/8vhmtyjqjME
>> See http://www.alexecollins.com/content/docker-persistence/
>> and https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockervolumes/
> 
> I was also thinking about this before, but I don’t know enough about
> how Kolab works internally so far. Are you aware of a list of the
> files/directories that contain user data? I will have a look at the
> backup instructions as soon as I find the time, maybe there is some
> useful information...

On Debian, the following directories contain data which is very 
important for the services:
- LDAP: /var/lib/dirsrv
- MySQL: /var/lib/mysql
- IMAP: /var/lib/imap
- Mail queues: /var/spool
- Mail logs: /var/log

I'll have a look into it too, let's see where this goes to =)

Cheers,
Tobias