MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL database. I use this database, among other things, to store data from [[Docker - Home Assistant Container Setup with MariaDB and InfluxDB 2.x|Home Assistant]]. Furthermore, it is very easy to connect MariaDB to [[Docker - Grafana Container Setup|Grafana]] to visualize data.
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It is very easy to send a syslog test message to a syslog server using logger and to check the connection between syslog client and server with tcpdump.
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I regularly delete a ‘sandbox’ measurement with test data. It is not very complicated to delete a measurement, but it is worth noting.
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Docker containers which are using the network of the host (the machine Docker runs on) will also need to share the ports of the host with each other.
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I use shared folders for a number of Docker containers. For example, the shared folder can be on a NAS or a file server. Below I describe how I added the shared folders to my Ubuntu VM.
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Every day at 7:00 PM I make a dump of every MariaDB database. This can be done by calling mysqldump from the MariaDB container. I’m using the crontab to schedule this.
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