Question - does DDEV need to start the web container to perform a snapshot?

[kinglozzer]

Sorry if this has already been raised, I searched for it but couldn’t find anything.

One of the machines I use for development has a slower hard disk, so Mutagen sync can take quite some time. When doing snapshots, e.g. ddev snapshot --all to snapshot every project I’m working on for backups, DDEV starts + stops both the db and web containers, with the latter taking a while due to Mutagen.

Is it actually necessary to start the web container, or would it be possible to just start the db container?

[rfay]

I don't think the logic is perfect there; theoretically it should just be able to restart the db container, but I don't think it actually works that way.

However, if mutagen is taking a long time to sync, there's something wrong with your setup, I'd be happy to take a look at that with you. Essentially you need to use ddev mutagen monitor (in another window) to find out what it's having trouble with, and those directories may need to be added to upload_dirs.