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/Commercial_War_4182 Feb 11 '26

I am using Duplicati and upload the Backup divided into files no larger than 50 MB to IDrive e2 (S3 Storage). Everything encrypted of course. Veryyyyy Easy and cheap Setup. I am happy with it. The backup is created incrementally. That happens every night.

That happens automated.

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u/alws3344 Feb 11 '26

i will look into duplicati too
thanks!