Hey all, i would like to get some feedback on my backup strategy.

I have a debian webserver with a ZFS pool running nextcloud aio, immich and jellyfin. Thinking about adding other services as well but nextcloud and immich are the most important ones. The docker volumes of these services point of course to the zfs pool. My backup strategy would now be to use the internal backup solutions for nextcloud and immich to backup their databases, then stop the docker containers and do a borg backup of the zfs pool. The backups would be stored an extern hard drive (I want to expand on this but for now this is all I can afford). is this a viable approach or do i miss something? Could there be problems in case of a backup with the databases etc? The docker compose files are also stored on another machines together with my server documentation.

  • Peluri96@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    You did not mention where the target of the borg backup is, but you want an external service. I believe there is a service that works wells with borg backup, but have not used it.

    I did write that the borg backups would be stored on an external drive, sorry that this point wasnt clearer.

    I basicly for the start have one big usb 20tb hdd drive (it was discounted and costed only little more than the 12 tb same brand one) to store my backups and i plan to get more drives when i can afford them. The idea with an additional machine i had as well, but thats maybe something further down the road.

    the question is that for the start, if a borgbackup of the zfs pool on an external drive with all those services would work. I am a bit worried about their databases yucking up or something.