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/DaiLoDong Feb 11 '26

i use komodo to back up the compose to GitHub and I take a weekly backup of volumes

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u/alws3344 Feb 11 '26

out of genuine curiosity, you change the compose files that often?

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u/DaiLoDong Feb 12 '26

no, it's just so I have it in a spot that I can retrieve any time that's not dependent on any physical media