#!/bin/bash #Author: Guido Diepen #Convenience script that can help me to easily create a clone of a given #data volume. The script is mainly useful if you are using named volumes #First check if the user provided all needed arguments if [ "$1" = "" ] then echo "Please provide a source volume name" exit fi if [ "$2" = "" ] then echo "Please provide a destination volume name" exit fi #Check if the source volume name does exist docker volume inspect $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ "$?" != "0" ] then echo "The source volume \"$1\" does not exist" exit fi #Now check if the destinatin volume name does not yet exist docker volume inspect $2 > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ "$?" = "0" ] then echo "The destination volume \"$2\" already exists" exit fi echo "Creating destination volume \"$2\"..." docker volume create --name $2 echo "Copying data from source volume \"$1\" to destination volume \"$2\"..." docker run --rm \ -i \ -t \ -v $1:/from \ -v $2:/to \ alpine ash -c "cd /from ; cp -av . /to"