Get your backups to safety with rsnapshot

In this article we learned how to backup Docker volumes. However, storing them on the same machine won’t do us any good should, for example, the harddrive fail.

rsnapshot to the rescue.

I run rsnsapshot as a Docker container from my home server and have set up a ssh source in the rsnapshot config file which I fetch on a regular basis via the following cron job:

docker exec rsnapshot rsnapshot alpha

That’s it.