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+# Issues and Contributing
+
+Please note that only issues related to this Docker image will be addressed here.
+
+* If you have Docker related issues, please ask in the [Docker user mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/docker-user).
+* If you have Jenkins related issues, please ask in the [Jenkins mailing lists](https://jenkins-ci.org/content/mailing-lists).
+* If you are not sure, then this is probably not the place to create an issue and you should use any of the previously mentioned mailing lists.
+
+If after going through the previous checklist you still think you should create an issue here please provide:
+
+* Docker commands that you execute
+* Actual result
+* Expected outcome
+* Output of `docker version`
+* Other relevant information
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 This is highly recommended. Treat the jenkins_home directory as you would a database - in Docker you would generally put a database on a volume.
 
-If your volume is inside a container - you can use ```docker cp $ID:/var/jenkins_home``` command to extract the data.
+If your volume is inside a container - you can use ```docker cp $ID:/var/jenkins_home``` command to extract the data, or other options to find where the volume data is.
 Note that some symlinks on some OSes may be converted to copies (this can confuse jenkins with lastStableBuild links etc)
 
+For more info check Docker docs section on [Managing data in containers](https://docs.docker.com/userguide/dockervolumes/)
+
 # Setting the number of executors
 
 You can specify and set the number of executors of your Jenkins master instance using a groovy script. By default its set to 2 executors, but you can extend the image and change it to your desired number of executors :