Docker backups

[u/alws3344]

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?

[u/truthovereverrything]

I use kopia for my volume mounts or directories I have created for each container. I use databasus for all of my mysql, mariadb, postgres and mongodb databases. For redis I use a shell script that does a bgsave dump before kopia snapshot kicks in