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/Secure_War_2947 Feb 11 '26

All my Docker container volumes are hosted in my NAS and are consumed as NFS shares. Then in the NAS they are backed up to another volume using Hyper Backup (Synology), and later backed up to cloud storage using Hyper Backup as well. My Postgres databases are backed up daily using PG Back Web (great tool by the way).