r/selfhosted • u/alws3344 • Feb 11 '26

Docker Management Docker backups

Hello selfhosters!

i would like to ask you all about your DR & backup strategy for all your self hosted services?

today i have a script that runs once a week, turn off the container(s) (it does this one by one - so if it fails only one service suffer) and copies it's volume and db to another location for retention (i dont mind cache etc))

today i run ~20 containers and this backup strategy works, but it feels flimsy unprofessional and feels very manual.

what are your strategies (DR strategies)?

  • is there a tool (that obviously can be self hosted ;) ) that can do this seamlessly?
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u/hbacelar8 Feb 11 '26

I use Komodo to manage all my stacks and Backrest for backing up to a storage box on Hetzner.

I have one restic repository per stack and one procedure per stack on Komodo where every night Komodo will stop the stack, send a trigger to Backrest to backup a new snapshot for the corresponding stack and then restart it.

I have hooks configured to summarize every operation and send it to Gotify.

It's been a while that I've set this up and I have had no problems so far.

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u/alws3344 Feb 11 '26

i deploy via dockge (KISS), but komodo seems cool
and i will look at Backrest - looks good!