Please help me figure out data directories

[ovizii]

Sample .env file contains:

# Directory where the SQLite database is stored
DATA_DIR=./data

Sample compose file contains:

        volumes:
            - ${BACKEND_DATA_VOLUME:-backend-data}:/data

Is the first variablemeant for the directory INSIDE the container and the second one can be declared like this BACKEND_DATA_VOLUME=./places-data to exchange the named volume with a bind-mounted volume?

[Majorfi]

Hey @ovizii! Sorry for the delay

BACKEND_DATA_VOLUME=./places-data works fine. Compose just replaces the value into ${BACKEND_DATA_VOLUME:-backend-data}:/data and you end up with ./places-data:/data.

The DATA_DIR thing is an error and is fixed in #50 with a comment to explain how it works. It's a backend env var that defaults to /data, but the compose files never actually pass it through, so setting it in .env does nothing in Docker, it only does anything if you run the Go binary directly !