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Yeah, containers are great! It's really nice knowing exactly which directories to move if I need to rebalance my services onto other hardware or something.
Most of my services are on my NAS, so I have this setup:
Disaster recovery should be as simple as:
I use specific container versions, so I should get exactly the same setup.
I'm going to be reinstalling my NAS soon (boot drive is getting old), so we'll see how this process works, though I'll skip step 1 since I'm keeping the drives.