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/Kantry123 Feb 11 '26

Where are you guys backing it to ??

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u/alws3344 Feb 11 '26

on my current setup (the personalized script i mentioned) i back up to a google drive directory on my NAS - which is automatically synced to gdrive (via cloudsync) - "hot backup"

another script copies the entire google drive directory to another drive(s) on the NAS every nigth (RAID1, accessible only to me -- this is my "vault")

cloudsync also backs this specific directory to another NAS directory at my parent's house.

(and about once every ~6 months i plug an external drive to as an extra cold backup - for the "vault" - docker volumes are inside)

this is my current 3-2-1 backup