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You can also use data volume containers. Please refer to:
> [https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockervolumes/](https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockervolumes/)
+Note: By default this image is waiting an **hdb** database backend, if you want to use any other database backend set backend type via the LDAP_BACKEND environement variable.
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### Backup
A simple solution to backup your ldap server, is our openldap-backup docker image:
> [osixia/openldap-backup](https://github.com/osixia/docker-openldap-backup)
