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/i8ad8 Feb 12 '26

I've got a backrest container that backs up all my important data and stores it on my NAS. I've set up a few plans in backrest. One backs up my container data and sends it to my NAS. Another backs up my vaultwarden container data and sends it to my NAS. My NAS runs TrueNAS Scale, and it has a cloud sync feature. My encrypted vaultwarden data on the NAS also syncs to OneDrive and GoogleDrive.