I am trying to setup a restic job to backup my docker stacks, and with half of everything owned by root it becomes problematic. I’ve been wanting to look at podman so everything isn’t owned by root, but for now I want to backup my work I built.
Also, how do you deal with some docker containers having databases. Do you have to create exports for all docker containers that have some form of database?
I’ve spent the last few days moving all my docker containers to a dedicated machine. I was using a mix of NFS and local storage before, but now I am doing everything on local NVME. My original plan was having everything on NFS so I would worry about backups there, and I might go back to that.
From my basic selfhosted experience… I run kopia as root , my shit uses bind mounts so all I care about is in that directory.
And so far it works fine, to just down old, rename the directory, copy from nightly backup back the directory and start container.
But yeah if there is something I care about I schedule database dumps like here in bookstack or vaultwarden…
To have something more if shit would not work start.