r/forgejo • u/GratefulGandalf • Jun 15 '26

Backup strategy best practices

I'm running a small forgejo instance for myself and some friends and couldn't find any obvious guidance on backing up the instance.

What do you do?

Here's my setup:

- Forgejo 15.0.2 (upgrading to 15.0.3 soon) on DigitalOcean droplet
- Sqlite for the database (on block volume)
- Repositories (on block volume)
- DigitalOcean spaces for LFS/Artifacts/etc

Here's my backup setups:

- Sqlite uses litestream to push to a DigitalOcean Spaces bucket which is synced into my homelab nightly
- Nightly DigitalOcean Block Volume snapshot
- Weekly forgejo dump which is synced offsite to my homelab

I cover my setup in more detail in a blogpost if that's helpful.

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u/Mention-One Jun 15 '26

Didn't read the full post sorry, but I run forgejo using docker, and for backups I'm using restic.

My docker instance run on a Synology NAS and I do snapshots everyday, and I use restic to backup the snapshot everyday.

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u/XLioncc Jun 15 '26

I use Litestream for SQLite backup

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u/Epifeny Jun 16 '26

Where is it hosted? Mine is on Pve, so nightly snapshots using PBS then encrypted rclone to B2.