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How do you back up all your selfhosted services (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi Everyone

I need some help

I'm currently selfhosting some of my applications on Digital Ocean and i run a container using Portainer CE. I was wondering how you guys keep backups for the applications running on docker.

I'm currently using Digital ocean's snapshots feature but is there a better way i could use, any help on this is highly appreciated.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Borgbackup, borgmatic to two backup targets: one in my home and a Hetzner Storage Box. Amongst other things, i include /var/lib/docker/volumes, covering the not-filesystem-bound mounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What retention do you run?
I'm setting up the same system, but don't know how far back I need. Currently considering 7 daily backups, so I can restore to any point within the week, and 2-3 Monthly backups in case there's an issue I miss for a real long period.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

entirely up to your feelings i guess - i run 7 dailies and 2 weeklies