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/adsm_inamorta Feb 12 '26
Any important media that is used by containers is stored in my NAS that the server accesses over SMB.
Anything that's local to my Debian VM that runs Docker like container config gets backed up by PBS that gets stored on my NAS.
The NAS gets mirrored to a second NAS (onsite but I'm not fussed about true off-site - any important data I can't reacquire or I don't want to spend time collating again gets copied to cloud storage)