I am running MySQL in a docker container and I want to have the databases persistent across container restarts. When I google this everything I see talks about having the databases in another container and mounting that. I would prefer not to do it that way. Why cannot I not just have an area outsid…

[image] larrymartell59: I am running MySQL in a docker container and I want to have the databases persistent across container restarts. I’m pretty sure the standard mysql container is configured this way. It stores its data in a Docker volume. So you should be able to docker run -d -p 3306…

I am mounting a volume and it does find it from previous runs, but mysql will not start. That is my issues.

I solved my problem. I had to add this to my run file: mysql_install_db --user=mysql --ldata=/var/lib/mysql/

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yec1980 March 25, 2019, 2:45pm 5

Do you have any idea how to do it with docker-compose?

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