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You just finished setting up all your services and it works fine - how do you now prepare for eventual drive failure? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know that for data storage the best bet is a NAS and RAID1 or something in that vein, but what about all the docker containers you are running, carefully configured services on your rpi, installed *arr services on your PC, etc.?

Do you have a simple way to automate backups and re-installs of these as well or are you just resigned to having to eventually reconfigure them all when the SD card fails, your OS needs a reinstall or the disk dies?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My docker containers are all configured via docker compose so I just tar the .yml files and the outside data volumes and backup that to an external drive.

For configs living in /etc you can also backup all of them but I guess its harder to remember what you modified and where so this is why you document your setup step by step.

Something nice and easy I use for personal documentations is mdbooks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ahh, so the best docker practice is to always just use outside data volumes and backup those separately, seems kinda obvious in retrospect. What about mounting them directly to the NAS (or even running docker from NAS?), for local networks the performance is probably good enough? That way I wouldn't have to schedule regular syncs and transfers between "local" device storage and NAS? Dunno if it would have a negative effect on drive longevity compared to just running a daily backup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you've got a good network path NFS mounts work great. Don't forget to also back up your compose files. Then bringing a machine back up is just a case of running them.