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How do you backup your docker containers when so much is owned by root?

  • Great idea. I already do something similar(minus the btrfs part) for Vaultwarden. Mind sharing the script/commands?

    I setup my host with btrfs but I have 0 knowledge of it so I didn't take advantage of it until now. I already have my docker volumes mapped to /docker/stack so I'm gonna create a sub-volume and move that there.

    I'm mostly interest in your btrfs snapshot and send commands but if you don't mind sharing the whole thing that would be great.

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    Cheapest VPS to get started with

  • I don't think it's as random as people make it out to be.

    I'm using mine since 2 years now and I got a deletion warning because it was flagged inactive (low CPU usage).

    Since then I have a bogus CPU intensive task running in the background and it's still going over 6 months after the warning.

    Lots of people probably don't check their mails or break ToS in such a way that they don't even get a warning.

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    Cheapest VPS to get started with

  • I have an actual 1,20$/month VPS with vpshostingservice.co and it has a static ipv4 address, 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM and 15GB SSD storage and unmetered bandwidth.

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    Cheapest VPS to get started with

  • They don't like you running the server at 100% for extended periods of time though if I'm remembering correctly.

    I think it's the other way around. I've been hosting a bunch of service on mine, which I accessed daily. Even SSH'd to it daily and I got flagged for inactivity because of low CPU activity.

    Now I run some bogus CPU intensive task 24/7 and haven't heard back since.

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    Anything interesting I could do with spare Android phones?

  • r/androidafterlife is a good place to look

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    Be honest: Are you doing SelfHosting just for the sake of it - or do you have apps, that really improve your daily life?

  • What I use daily without necessarily interacting with them:

    First 3 with Baikal

    • Contacts
    • Calendars
    • Simple to-dos/reminders
    • Immich for pictures sync

    What I actually interact with daily:

    • Memos for simple note taking
    • Vikunja for more elaborate to-dos/project tracking
    • Bitwarden (Vaultwarden)
    • Miniflux for RSS
    • Jellyfin

    Occasionally:

    • Microbin (pastebin)
    • Gokapi (filesharing)
    • Gitea (code versioning) although I don't program at all. It's serving as a way to backup my config files as well as synchronizing them across different machines.

    All of which I used to use a proprietary alternative before starting selfhosting.

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