# Dremio volume folder backup

**URL:** <https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-volume-folder-backup/6100>\
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**Created:** [August 16, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-volume-folder-backup/6100 "2020-08-16T19:06:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![alexdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/839c29/32.png) [@alexdi](https://community.dremio.com/u/alexdi)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-volume-folder-backup/6100/1 "2020-08-16T19:06:35Z")

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Hi,  
My Dremio run in the docker and store data (/opt/dremio) in volume.  
Can I simple backup volume data with “cp -ar” on the running container and then create a new container and put data in the new volume?

I did that, but I got next error in the logs:

2020-08-16T19:13:45.453+0000: [GC (Allocation Failure) 2020-08-16T19:13:45.453+0000: [DefNew: 2176K-\>255K(2432K), 0.0014601 secs] 2176K-\>660K(7936K), 0.0019959 secs] [Times: user=0.01 sys=0.00, real=0.00 secs]  
dremio\_1 | 2020-08-16T19:13:45.549+0000: [GC (Allocation Failure) 2020-08-16T19:13:45.550+0000: [DefNew: 2431K-\>255K(2432K), 0.0013504 secs] 2836K-\>1017K(7936K), 0.0018172 secs] [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00, real=0.00 secs]  
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2020-08-16 19:13:50,775 [main] ERROR ROOT - Dremio is exiting. Failure while starting services.  
dremio\_1 | com.dremio.datastore.DatastoreException: Process user (dremio) doesn’t match local catalog db owner (1000). Please run process as 1000.  
…  
Dremio is exiting. Failure while starting services.  
dremio\_1 | com.dremio.datastore.DatastoreException: Process user (dremio) doesn’t match local catalog db owner (1000). Please run process as 1000.

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**Author:** ![balaji.ramaswamy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.dremio.com/balaji.ramaswamy/32/843_2.png) [@balaji.ramaswamy](https://community.dremio.com/u/balaji.ramaswamy)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://community.dremio.com/t/dremio-volume-folder-backup/6100/2 "2020-08-23T06:30:54Z")

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@alexdi

It would be better to copy the “db” folder when Dremio is down. But the error you see is unrelated as it clearly says that the unix user you are trying to use to start Dremio does not match with the unix user that owns the “db” folder

Thanks  
Bali