Joplin

Joplin is an open source note-taking app. Capture your thoughts and securely access them from any device.

This service lets you host your own Joplin server, which your clients can connect to.

Installation

Enable Joplin by setting COMPOSE_PROFILES=joplin. It will be accessible at /joplin.

Copy the example environment file and edit as needed before running Joplin: cp joplin/env.example joplin/.env.

Backup

Joplin's database and media files can be backed up in the cloud storage product of your choice with Rclone.

Before a backup can be made, rclone config must be run to generate the configuration file:

docker compose run --rm -it joplin-backup rclone config

It will generate a rclone.conf configuration file in ./joplin/rclone/rclone.conf.

Copy the backup environment file to backup.env and fill it as needed: cp backup.env.exmple backup.env

Variable	Description	Default
MAILER_ENABLED	Enable Joplin mailer	false
MAILER_HOST	Mailer hostname
MAILER_PORT	Mailer port	465
MAILER_SECURITY	Mailer security protocol	MailerSecurity.Tls
MAILER_AUTH_USER	Mailer user
MAILER_AUTH_PASSWORD	Mailer password
MAILER_NOREPLY_NAME	No reply email name
MAILER_NOREPLY_EMAIL	No reply email address
RCLONE_REMOTE_NAME	Name of the remote you chose during rclone config
RCLONE_REMOTE_DIR	Name of the rclone remote dir, eg: S3 bucket name, folder name, etc
CRON	How often to run the backup	@daily backup every day
TIMEZONE	Timezone, used for cron times	America/New_York
ZIP_PASSWORD	Password to protect the backup archive with	123456
BACKUP_KEEP_DAYS	How long to keep the backup in the destination	31 days

You can test your backup manually with:

docker compose run --rm -it joplin-backup backup