# Saving account credentials from docker

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/saving-account-credentials-from-docker/3616>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 11, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/saving-account-credentials-from-docker/3616 "2015-11-11T17:42:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![mannu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/54ee81/32.png) [@mannu](https://community.letsencrypt.org/u/mannu)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/saving-account-credentials-from-docker/3616/6 "2015-11-11T20:39:50Z")

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You add to use Docker’s volume in order to get data live more longer than Docker’s machine.

For example:

```
mkdir -p /Users/username/letsencrypt/etc/letsencrypt
mkdir -p /Users/username/letsencrypt/var/lib/letsencrypt
mkdir -p /Users/username/letsencrypt/var/log/letsencrypt

docker run -it --rm -p 443:443 -p 80:80 --name letsencrypt \
    -v "/Users/username/letsencrypt/etc/letsencrypt:/etc/letsencrypt" \
    -v "/Users/username/letsencrypt/var/lib/letsencrypt:/var/lib/letsencrypt" \
    -v "/Users/username/letsencrypt/var/log/letsencrypt:/var/log/letsencrypt" \
    quay.io/letsencrypt/letsencrypt:latest certonly --authenticator manual \
	--agree-dev-preview --server https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/directory \
	--email username@mydomain.tld --agree-tos --rsa-key-size 4096 \
	--renew-by-default --domain mycert.mydomain.tld

```

This way data will remain on your machine under /Users/username/letsencrypt folder.

log folder is useful with --debug and --verbose parameters when trying to understand why something is going wrong.

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