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3 months agoHow I lost a Postgres database:
- Installed Postgres container without configuring a volume
- Made a mental note that I need to configure a volume
- After a few days of usage, restarted the container to configure the volume
- …
- Acceptance
How I lost a Postgres database:
Technically, containers always run in Linux. (Even on windows/OS X; on those platforms docker runs a lightweight Linux VM that then runs your containers.)
And I wasn’t even using Docker.