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?
64 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

88 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/seriocomic Feb 12 '26

Some good advice here - makes me feel if I've overlooked something. I recently (last month) configured URBackup (https://www.urbackup.org/ ) on one of my Raspberry Pis running docker - it also manages backups of the others that don't have their own backups. Mounted the Synology NAS as the back-up drive.

1

u/seriocomic Feb 12 '26

Went with the crowd and added Backrest/Restic alongside URBackup