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Bookstack

Bookstack installation

Change port to 6975

Add in docker-compose: restart: unless-stopped

$docker directory = /home/docker .... etc 

Docker-Compose file reference

https://github.com/solidnerd/docker-bookstack/blob/master/docker-compose.yml

version: '2'
services:
  mysql:
    image: mysql:8.0
    environment:
    - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret
    - MYSQL_DATABASE=bookstack
    - MYSQL_USER=bookstack
    - MYSQL_PASSWORD=secret
    volumes:
    - mysql-data:/var/lib/mysql
    restart: unless-stopped

  bookstack:
    image: solidnerd/bookstack:22.10.2
    depends_on:
    - mysql
    environment:
    - DB_HOST=mysql:3306
    - DB_DATABASE=bookstack
    - DB_USERNAME=bookstack
    - DB_PASSWORD=secret
    #set the APP_ to the URL of bookstack without without a trailing slash APP_URL=https://example.com
    - APP_URL=http://xxx.xxxmydomainxxx.duckdns.org
    volumes:
    - $docker/public-uploads:/var/www/bookstack/public/uploads
    - $docker/storage-uploads:/var/www/bookstack/storage/uploads
    ports:
    - "6975:8080"
    restart: unless-stopped

Notice: The default password for bookstack is

admin@admin.com

password

Backup and Restore

Files Backup:

tar -czvf bookstack-files-backup.tar.gz public-uploads storage-uploads

Restore:

tar -xvzf bookstack-files-backup.tar.gz

Database backup:

sudo docker exec bookstack_mysql_1 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=secret bookstack > ./bookstack/bookstack_db.sql

Restore:

sudo docker exec -i bookstack_mysql_1 mysql -u root --password=secret bookstack < /$docker/bookstack/bookstack_db.sql
  • bookstack_mysql1 is the container name
  • password is secret or the database password

Reverse Proxy

Use subdomain in proxy manager. 

Backing Up and Restoring with LinuxServer.io container

Due to limits or Oracle Cloud free tier. The only arm image is from linuxserver io container, and it is different than solidnerd image. 

Docker-Compose file

version: "2"
services:
  bookstack:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/bookstack
    container_name: bookstack
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - APP_URL=https://wiki.xxx.duckdns.org
      - DB_HOST=bookstack_db
      - DB_USER=bookstack
      - DB_PASS=secret
      - DB_DATABASE=bookstackapp
    volumes:
      - /home/ubuntu/bookstack:/config
    ports:
      - 6975:80
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - bookstack_db
      
  bookstack_db:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/mariadb
    container_name: bookstack_db
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=bookstackapp
      - MYSQL_USER=bookstack
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=secret
    volumes:
      - /home/ubuntu/bookstack:/config
    restart: unless-stopped

Notice: In Oracle cloud free tier, the default ubuntu user is 1001, not 1000. For database name, it it bookstackapp, keep in mind when executing restore command. The folder structure is also different. In the solidnerd container, the images are stored at /public-uploads while in LSIO container it is stored at /www/uploads

Backing Up (from home PC)

Images

cd into /public-uploads and make a tar archive

tar -czvf images.tar.gz images

Backup the database

sudo docker exec bookstack_mysql_1 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=secret bookstack > ./bookstack_db.sql

Transfer to Oracle Cloud Server

scp -i oracle-arm-2.key images.tar.gz bookstack_db.sql ubuntu@$IPADDR:/home/ubuntu/bookstack/www/uploads

Take in consideration the location where LSIO image stores the images.

Restore (into Oracle Cloud)

Images (/home/ubuntu/bookstack/www/uploads)

tar -xvzf images.tar.gz

Database

The image url in the database still refers to old server url, it needs to be changed. The following command replace the subdomain in the sq1 dump.

sed -i 's/wiki.$home.duckdns.org/wiki.$oracle.duckdns.org/g' bookstack_db.sql

Restore the database.

sudo docker exec -i bookstack_db mysql -u root --password=secret bookstackapp < /home/ubuntu/bookstack/www/uploads/bookstack_db.sql

Crontab

On Home PC

0 23 * * 2,5 /home/karis/bookstack.sh
#!/bin/bash

cd ~/docker/bookstack/public-uploads #location of bookstack public uploads
tar -czvf images.tar.gz images
sudo docker exec bookstack_mysql_1 /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=secret bookstack > ./bookstack_db.sql
scp -i oracle-arm-2.key images.tar.gz bookstack_db.sql ubuntu@$ORACLEIP:/home/ubuntu/bookstack/www/uploads

Do a backup sequence in crontab at 11pm every Tuesday and Friday.

Oracle Cloud Server

0 8 * * 3,6 /home/ubuntu/bookstack.sh
#!/bin/bash

cd ~/bookstack/www/uploads #directory where bookstack files scp from home are located
tar -xvzf images.tar.gz
sed -i 's/wiki.$homeip.duckdns.org/wiki.$oracle.duckdns.org/g' bookstack_db.sql
sudo docker exec -i bookstack_db mysql -u root --password=secret bookstackapp < /home/ubuntu/bookstack/www/uploads/bookstack_db.sql

Restore the sequence after backup, every Wednesday and Saturday at 8am (need to consider the TZ between Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto, or any the time zone of the remote server)

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