# Destroying docker container does not destroy the database?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [March 16, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/destroying-docker-container-does-not-destroy-the-database/26411 "2015-03-16T21:18:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesmarkcook](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jamesmarkcook/32/168563_2.png) [@jamesmarkcook](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamesmarkcook)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/destroying-docker-container-does-not-destroy-the-database/26411/8 "2015-03-16T22:51:27Z")

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Thanks for your replies. I was already pretty confident with the Docker setup, I just wasn’t aware of the symlinked volumes and the data living on the host. Now I know! 🙂

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