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.

  • modscleo4@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Almost everything I run is a Docker container, so I made /var/lib/docker a btrfs subvolume, and then I make every day incremental snapshots (cron job) and copy them to a secondary disk (also btrfs, using btrbk). Since they are btrfs snapshots they don’t use a lot of disk space and if I really need to rollback an entire day I can