selfhosted-apps-docker/kopia_backup

Kopia

guide-by-example

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Purpose & Overview

Backups.

• Official site
• Github

Kopia is an open source backup utility with basicly all modern features.
Cross-platform, deduplication, encryption, compression, multithreaded speed, cloud storage support, CLI and GUI versions, snapshots mounting,...

Written in golang,

In this setup kopia cli is installed directly on the host system.
A script is created that backs up the entire docker directory and /etc locally.
Cronjob is set to execute this script daily.

The repository is also pruned on each run of the script - old archives are deleted while keeping the ones fitting the retention rules in the script.
One backup per day for last 7 days, last 4 weeks, last 6 months are kept.

Files and directory structure

/home/
├── ~/
│   └── docker/
│       ├── container-setup #2
│       ├── container-setup #1
│       ├── ...
│
/mnt/
  └── mirror/
        └── docker_host_kopia/

• docker_backup/ - borg repository directory containg the backups
• borg_backup.sh - the backup script that adds new archive in to the repository
• borg_backup.log - log file with the dates of backups

Only borg_backup.sh has to be provided.
Repo directory is created by borg init command and the log file is created on the first run.

The setup

Install kopia

for arch linux, kopia is on AUR yay kopia-bin

Backing up using kopia

use of sudo so that kopia has access everywhere
config files are therefore in /root/config/kopia

• mkdir /mnt/mirror/docker_host_kopia
  
• sudo kopia repository create filesystem --path /mnt/mirror/docker_host_kopia
  
• sudo kopia repository connect filesystem --path /mnt/mirror/docker_host_kopia
  
• sudo kopia snapshot create /home/spravca/docker
  
• sudo kopia snapshot list
  
• sudo kopia mount k7e2b0a503edd7604ff61c68655cd5ad7 /mnt/tmp &
  
• sudo umount /mnt/tmp
  

The backup script

Manual run

Automatic execution

Accessing the backup files

Extra info

Remote backup