Try fixing permission error for data dir in Docker

Dockerfile

@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ EXPOSE 7860 8080
 COPY start.sh .
 RUN chmod +x start.sh
 
-RUN mkdir /data
-ENV TRANSFORMERS_CACHE=/data
+RUN mkdir ./data
+ENV TRANSFORMERS_CACHE=./data
 CMD ["./start.sh"]

README.md

@@ -30,8 +30,7 @@ python -m pip install -e .
 
 ### Preparing environemnt
 
-Set an environemnt variable called "HF_HUB_TOKEN" with your Hugging Face token
-or create a `.env` file with that env var.
+Set an environemnt variable called "HF_HUB_TOKEN" with your Hugging Face token or create a `.env` file with that env var.
 
 ### Running the app
 
@@ -74,10 +73,10 @@ docker build -t gistillery:latest .
 Next run the container:
 
 ```sh
-docker run -p 7860:7860 -e GRADIO_SERVER_NAME=0.0.0.0 -v $HOME/.cache/huggingface/hub:/data gistillery:latest
+docker run -p 7860:7860 -p 8080:8080 -e GRADIO_SERVER_NAME=0.0.0.0 -v $HOME/.cache/huggingface/hub:/workspace/data gistillery:latest
 ```
 
-Note that the Hugging Face cache folder is mounted as a docker volume to make use of potentially available local model cache instead of downloading the transformers models each time the container is started. To prevent that, remove the `-v ...` parameter. The database used for storing the results is ephemeral and will be deleted when the docker container is stopped.
+Note that the Hugging Face cache folder is mounted as a docker volume to make use of potentially available local model cache instead of downloading the transformers models each time the container is started. To prevent that, remove the `-v ...` parameter. The database used for storing the results is ephemeral and will be deleted when the docker container is stopped. The backend server is also exposed directly via port 8080 to enable DB backups (see below).
 
 ### Backup