Hello! I was wondering if running periodically a script to automatically pull new images for all my containers is a good or a bad idea. I’d run it everyday at 5.00AM to avoid interruptions. Any tips?

EDIT: Thanks to everyone for the help! I’ll install Watchtower to manage the updates

  • SteadyGoLucky@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Some apps have breaking changes. If you can restore a complete backup when that occurs, you can recover. Immich is famous for its breaking changes

    • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      But from the moment that the script updates and breaks something and the moment he realizes it may be too late for some applications.

      For example I host Traccar to track car/vans and in this case some tracks would be lost. Or maybe SyncThing, he may realize days/weeks later that a sync is not working and if he was synching his smartphone pictures with his server and the smartphone is lost/broke/stolen, he may lose days/weeks or even months of pictures.

      I wouldn’t trust a script. Use Watchtower or What’s up Docker

      @tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social

        • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I do bind mount data folders of the containers, I do backups, I have a notification system that alerts me if a container is not up, but a container can be up but have problems and, most importantly, I (and I guess a lot of other people) don’t always have time to solve problems. When I a few spare minutes a do a snapshot, I update the containers and if something goes wrong if I have time I troubleshoot it, otherwise I just roll back the snapshot and I’ll have a look at the problem when I’ll have time.