I just started getting into self hosting using docker compose and I wonder about possible backup solutions. I only have to safe my docker config so far, but I want host files as well. What software and hardware are you using for backup?
At the moment I’m doing primarily hopes and prayers
I had to upgrade to Hopes&Prayers+ after I ran out of hope and my prayers kept getting return to sender.
I was in the same boat, until my prayers weren’t listened and my hopes are now dead.
I lost some important data from my phone a few days ago. My plan was to backup at night but chaos was that same day in the morning.
Ah yes, the ostrich algorithm.
I’ve been using Borg to back my stuff up. It gets backed up to rsync.net, which has good support for Borg:
https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
If you’re good enough at computers, you can even set up a special borg account with them that’s cheaper and has no tech support.
Seconding this. On my unRAID host, I run a docker container called “Vorta” that uses Borg as its backend mechanism to backup to my SynologyNAS over NFS. Then on my Syno, run two backup jobs using HyperBackup, one goes to my cousin’s NAS connected via a Site-to-Site OpenVPN connection on our edge devices (Ubiquity Unifi Security Gateway Pro <-> UDM Pro), the other goes to Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.
OP, let me know if you need any assistance setting something like this up. Gotta share the knowledge over here on Lemmy that we’re still used to searching evil Reddit for.
My brother and I both run an USG. Would love to learn from you how to set up site2site VPN!
Niiiice, quick question, are both of y’all running the latest UniFi Controller version & using the new WebUI view layout?
His gear is v7 (Unifi and also Synology DSM) and I am still on v6 because I didn’t have a good reason to upgrade. If it works, don’t fix it, you know? Feature-wise there the same anyway just different UI. But sure, give me a good reason to upgrade, and I will :)
Love Borg and the associated docker containers and the like. Really is set and forget!
my 20 TB storage is currently hosted by Hetzner on a SMB Share with a acompanying server The storage is accessable via NFS/SMB i have a Windows 10 VPS running Backblaze Personal Backup for 7$/Month with unlimited storage while mounting the SMB share as a “Physical Drive” using Dokan because Backblaze B1 doesn’t allow backing up Network shares If your Storage is local you can use the win Backup Agent in a Docker container
Desktop: I was using Duplicati for years but I’ve recently switched to Restic directly to B2. I’m using this powershell script to run it.
Server: I’m also using restic to b2.
I also have a Qnap NAS. I’m synchronizing my replaceable data to crappy old seagate NAS locally. For the irreplaceable data that’s using the Qnap backup client to B2.
At home I have a Synology NAS for backup of the local desktops. Offsite Backups are done with restic to Blackblaze B2 and to another location.
I’ve had excellent luck with Kopia, backing up to Backblaze B2.
At work, I do the same to a local directory in my company provided OneDrive account to keep company data on company resources.
Someone on lemmy here suggested Restic, a backup solution written in Go.
I back up to an internal 4TB HDD every 30 minutes. My most important files are stored in an encrypted file storage online in the cloud.
Restic is good stuff.
Rsync everything besides media to a Storj free account. I also rsync my most important data(docker compose files,config files, home assistant, a few small databases) to Google drive.
I use restic (and dejadup just to be safe) backing up to multiple cloud storage points. Among these cloud storage points are borgbase.com, backblaze b2 and Microsoft cloud.
For app data, Borg as backup/restore software. Backup data is then stored on Hetzner as an offsite backup - super easy and cheap to setup. Also add healthchecks.io to get notified if a backup failed.
Edit: Backup docker compose files and other scripts (without API keys!!!) with git to GitHub.
All systems backup to Synology then to AWS Glacier. Ill check out Backblaze for pricing.
I doubt your using NixOS so this config might seem useless but at its core it is a simple systemd timer service and bash scripting.
To convert this to another OS you will use cron to call the script at the time you want. Copy the part between script=“” and then change out variables like the location of where docker-compose is stored since its different on NixOS.
Let me explain the script. We start out by defining the backupDate variable, this will be the name of the zip file. As of now that variable would be 2023-07-12. We then go to each folder with a docker-compose.yml file and take it down. You could also replace down with stop if you don’t plan on updating each night like I do. I use rclone to connect to Dropbox but rclone supports many providers so check it out and see if it has the one you need. Lastly I use rclone to connect to my Dropbox and delete anything older than 7 days in the backup folder. If you end up going my route and get stuck let me know and I can help out. Good luck.
systemd = { timers.docker-backup = { wantedBy = [ "timers.target" ]; partOf = [ "docker-backup.service" ]; timerConfig.OnCalendar= "*-*-* 3:30:00"; }; services.docker-backup = { serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot"; serviceConfig.User = "root"; script = '' backupDate=$(date +'%F') cd /docker/apps/rss ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose down cd /docker/apps/paaster ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose down cd /docker/no-backup-apps/nextcloud ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose down cd /docker/apps/nginx-proxy-manager ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose down cd /docker/backups/ ${pkgs.zip}/bin/zip -r server-backup-$backupDate.zip /docker/apps cd /docker/apps/nginx-proxy-manager ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose pull ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose up -d cd /docker/apps/paaster ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose pull ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose up -d cd /docker/apps/rss ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose pull ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose up -d cd /docker/no-backup-apps/nextcloud ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose pull ${pkgs.docker-compose}/bin/docker-compose up -d cd /docker/backups/ ${pkgs.rclone}/bin/rclone copy server-backup-$backupDate.zip Dropbox:Server-Backup/ rm server-backup-$backupDate.zip ${pkgs.rclone}/bin/rclone delete --min-age 7d Dropbox:Server-Backup/ ''; }; };
I use kup to back up my important PC files (the basic pre-installed backup software on KDE neon), which backs up to a separate drive on my PC, and that gets synced to my Nextcloud instance on my local server, and that - along with all the other data for my containers running on it - gets backed up by Kopia to DigitalOcean spaces.
I couldn’t recommend Kopia strongly enough, because you have such fine control of what gets backed up, when it gets backed up, how many to keep etc. and it is versioned so doesn’t grow exponentially, and it compresses and encrypts the backup. I also have a setup where it executes a script before and after the backup starts that stops and starts the containers to maintain file integrity since nothing will be writing to the files. And it’s also a Docker container so it can just fit into your current compose setup.
I usually use HanBrake, MakeMKV, or DVDFab to copy bluray disc.
So far I have had good experience with kopia. But it is definitly less battle-tested than the other alternatives and I do not use it for too critical stuff yet.