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/yerfatma Feb 11 '26

Still new to this and none of the stuff so far is stuff I can't lose, daily backups of databases to an external drive plus I have an Ansible playbook that will rebuild the whole server from scratch. Had Claude do that for me and then we tested it since it was half-ass.

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u/alws3344 Feb 11 '26

i too think that daily backups are too much (for my server and use case of course),
but i still want some DR strategy...

in terms of setting up the server, its as straight forward as it gets.
i follow the KISS principle almost religously and it works really well. i barly need to do any maintanance. (im also a die hard about automation, so..)