The –dry-run option ensures that only the availability of new images is checked but no pull operations are performed and no new containers are created
root@pve-pdman-01:~# apt-get install podman -y
root@pve-pdman-01:~# podman -v
podman version 5.4.1
root@pve-pdman-01:~# podman info
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mkdir -p ~/minio/data
root@pve-pdman-01:~# podman run \
-p 9000:9000 \
-p 9001:9001 \
–name minio \
-v ~/minio/data:/data \
-e „MINIO_ROOT_USER=<user>“ \
-e „MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=<password>“ \
quay.io/minio/minio server /data –console-address „:9001“
root@pve-pdman-01:~# podman images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
quay.io/minio/minio latest 69b2ec208575 2 weeks ago 176 MB
root@pve-pdman-01:~# podman ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
86234ac671bb quay.io/minio/minio:latest server /data –co… About an hour ago Up 9 minutes 0.0.0.0:9000-9001->9000-9001/tcp minio
http://<IP@>:9001
The –dry-run option ensures that only the availability of new images is checked but no pull operations are performed and no new containers are created
root@pve-pdman-01:~# podman auto-update –dry-run
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# curl https://dl.min.io/client/mc/release/linux-amd64/mc \
–create-dirs \
-o $HOME/minio-binaries/mc
root@pve-pdman-01:~# chmod +x $HOME/minio-binaries/mc
root@pve-pdman-01:~# export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/minio-binaries/
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc –help
The mc alias set command sets or updates an alias in the MinIO client configuration
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc alias set myminio http://192.168.1.177:9000 <user> <password>
Added `myminio` successfully.
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
Enables object optional locking on the specified bucket and object locking requires and therefore implies enabling object versioning:
–with-lock
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc mb –with-lock myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
Bucket created successfully `myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day`.
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –expiry-days 15 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
Lifecycle configuration rule added with ID `d3dsfjcukqlgnr42cv90` to myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day.
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm rule rm –id „d3dsfjcukqlgnr42cv90“ myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
Rule ID `d3dsfjcukqlgnr42cv90` from target myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day removed.
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
The optiml number of days to retain an object after being created:
–expire-days
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –expiry-days 12 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
Lifecycle configuration rule added with ID `d3f7j1cukqlhid0kvulg` to myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day.
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
The optional number of days to retain an object version after becoming non-current:
–noncurrent-expire-days
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –insecure –noncurrentversion-expiration-days 3 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
Lifecycle configuration rule added with ID `d3dsgocukqlgnqqqgmi0` to myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day.
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm export myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
{
„Rules“: [
{
„ID“: „d3dsgocukqlgnqqqgmi0“,
„NoncurrentVersionExpiration“: {
„NoncurrentDays“: 3
},
„Status“: „Enabled“
},
{
„Expiration“: {
„Days“: 12
},
„ID“: „d3f7j1cukqlhid0kvulg“,
„Status“: „Enabled“
}
]
}
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –expiry-days 96 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–week
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –noncurrentversion-expiration-days 3 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–week
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –expiry-days 192 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–month
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –noncurrentversion-expiration-days 3 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–month
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –expiry-days 484 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–year
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc ilm add –noncurrentversion-expiration-days 3 myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–year
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc retention set –default compliance 7d myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
Object locking ‚COMPLIANCE‘ is configured for 7DAYS.
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc retention info myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
Object locking ‚COMPLIANCE‘ is configured for 7DAYS.
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc –json retention info myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
{
„op“: „info“,
„enabled“: „Enabled“,
„mode“: „COMPLIANCE“,
„validity“: „7DAYS“,
„status“: „success“
}
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
The MinIO mc mirror command synchronizes content to MinIO deployment similar to the ‚rsync‘ utility
root@rpi-iot-jsho-cam-02:~# mc mirror –json $LocalBackupPath/$MirrorDay $MinioBucket/MotionEYE/$MirrorDay
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc admin info myminio
● 192.168.1.177:9000
Uptime: 3 days
Version: 2025-09-07T16:13:09Z
Network: 1/1 OK
Drives: 1/1 OK
Pool: 1
┌──────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬──────────────┐
│ Pool │ Drives Usage │ Erasure stripe size │ Erasure sets │
│ 1st │ 4.5% (total: 59 GiB) │ 1 │ 1 │
└──────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────┘
1005 MiB Used, 1 Bucket, 18,041 Objects, 18,042 Versions, 1 Delete Marker
1 drive online, 0 drives offline, EC:0
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc tree myminio
myminio
└─ worm-with-versioning-and-retention–day
└─ MotionEYE
├─ Camera1
│ ├─ 2025-10-01
│ ├─ 2025-10-02
│ ├─ 2025-10-03
│ ├─ 2025-10-04
│ ├─ 2025-10-05
│ ├─ 2025-10-06
│ ├─ 2025-10-07
│ └─ 2025-10-08
├─ Camera2
│ ├─ 2025-10-01
│ ├─ 2025-10-02
│ ├─ 2025-10-03
│ ├─ 2025-10-04
│ ├─ 2025-10-05
│ ├─ 2025-10-06
│ ├─ 2025-10-07
│ └─ 2025-10-08
├─ Camera3
│ ├─ 2025-10-01
│ ├─ 2025-10-02
│ ├─ 2025-10-03
│ ├─ 2025-10-04
│ ├─ 2025-10-05
│ ├─ 2025-10-06
│ ├─ 2025-10-07
│ └─ 2025-10-08
└─ Camera4
├─ 2025-10-01
├─ 2025-10-02
├─ 2025-10-03
├─ 2025-10-04
├─ 2025-10-05
├─ 2025-10-06
├─ 2025-10-07
└─ 2025-10-08
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~#
root@pve-pdman-01:~# mc mb –with-lock myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–week
Bucket created successfully `myminio/worm-with-versioning-and-retention–week`.
The mc rb command remove an empty bucket