gickup VS docker-volume-backup

If you need a way to automate repository backups, I like gickup.

How does it compare to Gickup?

Any good apps out there? I only know this one gickup, but documentation is pretty much inexistent and don't seem to understand where stuff is cloned into

I use gickup (GitHub, Docker Hub) because I configure it and then it's automated. Backups that run automatically are so much more valuable than a manual backup solution. If you have to run it manually, you'll forget to do it, and then the whole point of backups are lost.

You might also find gickup useful if you wish to automate the process a bit.

I’ve been very happy with https://github.com/cooperspencer/gickup so far.

You may want to have a look at docker-volume-backup[1]. I personally use it.

[1]: https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup/

I came across this amazing project offen/docker-volume-backup which not only can backup volumes locally on a schedule, it can also gracefully shut down the containers before doing so to make sure there are no unfinished writes. It also supports features like notifications, backup rotation, and compression. Additionally, it's compatible with different storage backends, making it easy to switch strategies—for example, to a remote server. And all of this with a simple Docker container. This is the whole Docker Compose configuration I use for it, not much more than the example from the project's docs:

Offen is a self-hosted backup solution that can backup to a variety of different cloud providers, including S3. It can backup Docker volumes with a simple command:

I am interested in coming up with a backup plan before I get too invested in this setup. I found the docker-volume-backup project that looks like it might be a possible solution. However I'm not sure how to implement it using docker swarm since I am new to all of this. I would be interested in learning what backup solution you use for your docker swarm servers.

How do people usually backup their self-hosted docker services using postgres? I have been using docker-volume-backup [0] and just saving the postgres data directory, but I've found it requires a minute of downtime to backup properly.

[0] https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup

Offen: https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup

To solve points 1,2 i 3 I think it would be best to make the copy by stopping the container first. I've been looking for utilities and I've found some like offen/docker-volume-backup. Again, the disadvantage is that you have to configure everything (mount points, files, users, passwords...) manually for each container, so it is very easy to forget to create the backup of one of them. Also, the scheduling would not be centralised, so the backup wouldn't be run sequentially container after container. I've searched a lot, but I haven't found any good alternative. How are you dealing with the backup of containers?

Since I'm using docker rootless, I've run into issues using convenient solutions such as offen. These solutions don't work in a rootless context due to file permissions. The user in the offen container cannot read some directories owned by other containers. This is usually an issue with databases.

FYI this looks like the actively developed version of that utility: https://github.com/offen/docker-volume-backup