# Looking for a "hello world" tutorial for convoy

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**Category:** Convoy\
**Created:** [June 17, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/looking-for-a-hello-world-tutorial-for-convoy/3153 "2016-06-17T06:43:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![mathuin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/mathuin/32/1391_2.png) [@mathuin](https://forums.suse.com/u/mathuin)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2016, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/looking-for-a-hello-world-tutorial-for-convoy/3153/1 "2016-06-17T06:43:51Z")

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> <https://github.com/rancher/convoy/blob/master/README.md>

This file has enough information for me to add Convoy to one of my Rancher hosts, but I’m getting errors when I try to create a Convoy volume.

> **[Using Convoy to Backup and Recover a Wordpress MySQL database with Docker |...](http://rancher.com/using-convoy-to-backup-and-recover-a-wordpress-mysql-database-with-docker/)**
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> The latest release of Docker Engine now supports volume plugins,... Read more

My docker-compose.yml has the same information as this example, but I’m getting errors:

```
Error (500 Server Error: Internal Server Error ("Failed to execute: mount [/dev/mapper/mcdata /var/lib/rancher/convoy/devicemapper/mounts/mcdata], output mount: mounting /dev/mapper/mcdata on /var/lib/rancher/convoy/devicemapper/mounts/mcdata failed: Invalid argument , error exit status 255"))

```

And because there’s no simple example, I can’t tell if I’m doing something wrong or if there’s some kind of bug in Rancher or in Convoy. Help! 🙂

If supplying more details will help diagnose my specific issue, let me know. I think a general up to date tutorial would be helpful for all.

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**Author:** ![mathuin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/mathuin/32/1391_2.png) [@mathuin](https://forums.suse.com/u/mathuin)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/looking-for-a-hello-world-tutorial-for-convoy/3153/2 "2016-06-21T23:38:49Z")

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An update to my personal progress with Convoy:

1. I was able to get Convoy working with EBS on AWS, but not devicemapper.
2. Convoy is _not_ production-ready. There’s three or four relatively obvious issues but they’re adequately mentioned in the repository so I won’t go into them in great detail here, but getting it into a container with a Docker volume for configuration would solve 99% of my issues.
3. Once it’s containerized, a new tutorial will make all the difference for everyone.

Thank you for making such an interesting product. Convoy has a lot of potential, but right now it introduces too many variables into my setup. Looking forward to seeing it develop!

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**Author:** ![BenjaminBower](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/benjaminbower/32/8063_2.png) [@BenjaminBower](https://forums.suse.com/u/BenjaminBower)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/looking-for-a-hello-world-tutorial-for-convoy/3153/3 "2021-09-28T15:29:47Z")

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I agree with you. I’m also waiting for its development!