How to make data persistence on disk and not in memory

[mnazirp]

Hy maybe this a newbie question,
How to make data persistence on disk and not in memory ?
can you point me into docker-compose environment variable to set this, btw there is no docker-compose env documentation right?

[veritymedia]

Best way to do it, I dont know. But if you replace memory in the surreal start command with a folder path, it puts files there.

Doc: https://surrealdb.com/docs/cli/start

[anonimusprogramus]

to start in memory:
surreal start --log debug --user root --pass root memory

to start persistent:
surreal start --log debug --user root --pass root file://my-testing-directory

surreal will then create my-testing-directory -- it's just normal container directory.

[bakman2]

For docker-compose you could use something like this:

version: '3'

services:
  surrealdb:
    container_name: surrealdb
    image: surrealdb/surrealdb:latest
    command: start --log debug --user root --pass root file://database.db
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    volumes:
      - ./data/database.db:/database.db

Change the volume to your liking.