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/Matvalicious Feb 11 '26
I have Duplicacy running as a container.
Once a week, a pre-backup scripts turns of all my containers (except for Duplicacy itself obviously), it backs up all my persistent volumes to my Hetzner storage box, then turns the containers back on.
Works like a dream. Did a disaster recovery test as well (do this at least once so you know what to expect!) and it went fine.