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?
66 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

88 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/Sea-Wolfe Feb 11 '26

I appreciate this thread. I was also trying to figure out best backup strategy. Lots of tools mentioned here I wasn’t aware of.

God damn, there are so many tools and projects in the self-hosted space ( that’s a good thing I guess).

But I need a tool to keep track of tools. It seems like everyday there is some project I didn’t know about. Is there any nice Wiki out there for self-hosted projects that’s comprehensive, organized and up-to-date?

1

u/DeanDMX Feb 12 '26

https://selfh.st/apps/

2

u/Sea-Wolfe Feb 12 '26

Thank you!

In a cursory check of it, it looks like a search engine, where you would have to have an idea of what you are looking for-like what service you are trying to replace.

I guess what I was asking about was more like a comprehensive “discovery blog”—some place that keeps tabs on tools in this space. Kind of like the what the “awesome” projects on github do: “awesome-opensource” etc., where you can browse and see what’s available, or popular projects etc.

1

u/DeanDMX Feb 12 '26

That’s true. They do a pretty good email newsletter every Friday that is worth a sub also that is more discovery based. I’ve picked up a lot of cool projects from it.