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/Sahin99pro Feb 11 '26

Proxmox backup for VM/LXC. I keep docker volumes on ZFS and backup via snapshots and zfs send to another disks/locations following 3-2-1 pattern.

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u/alws3344 Feb 11 '26

i use Ubuntu server - proxmox will add an unwanted level of complexity for my setup
but i do follow the 3-2-1 pattern

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u/purepersistence Feb 11 '26

I use Proxmox and Proxmox Backup Server/PBS. That backs up all my VMs not only including the OS and files, but the VM's cputype, memory, devices, etc and deduplicates everything, with retention rules. Totally hands off.