Restore Your Duplicati Docker Server Backups!

In this post we'll look at how to restore Docker application backups from Duplicati.

The process is actually pretty straightforward. In this video we'll be using Plex as our example.

I showed Plex up and running and playing media. Then I stopped the container and deleted the data from the server via SSH.

After showing that the server no longer worked, I retrieved a new Plex claim code and updated my Plex stack with it. I then re-deployed the container as a new, fresh application.

Once the container was up and running, I stopped it and then went over to Duplicati where I was able to go to my local backups and restore the application using all of the original file locations.

Make sure you also check the box that mentions file and folder permissions. We want to restore those permissions as well.

Once that process was complete, I restarted the Plex application in Portainer and went back to my Plex dashboard. The old server was still showing up, but we couldn't access anything. There was also a NEW server showing up that had all of my media ready to go just like it had been prior to me deleting the data.

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[Vidyalog]

Hey sir, I want to say you are a life saver, I was looking for something like this and you just give me a extremely well explained solution, thank you very much for this video, you just got a subscriber here!

[ewfzappadis]

Thank You from France, man, you're the best

[ICH]

Cool Video, I was wondering do you have any experience with backing up & restoring data from a database, e.g. from a mariadb container and its volume?

[robertarose]

Excellent video as always. How do you recommend backing up the actual data? In your example it would be the movie files for Plex...do you have a video for that? Would you suggest using Duplicati for this? Thanks!

[selfhosted]

Very cool! This seems too easy! I was using hyper backup on my nas but would be good to have a cloud option like drive. I may give this a go thanks!

[tomaszklimczak]

Great as always. One question how restore Duplicati container from scratch without Duplicati?

[lancecarter]

Thank you so much for the video and the previous one on how to set it up. I did have a question. My understanding is that you backup the files in "source" folder to "backup" folder on local drive. Then you backup the "backup" folder to cloud. Is there specific reason that we don't back up files directly to cloud? Also, for instance, let's say if my house burned down and all my local file got destroyed. Does this mean I need to first restore cloud backup to "backup" folder and then use the restored file in "backup" to restore local files? Like a pipeline

[dubas]

Thanks. What if you lost your docker server and had to restore that? Would you just build the container structure again then do a restore for the container data like in this video? You only showed deleting the the data store but what if your container in portainer got nuked?

[junny]

Im inspired now to do this but i have a question could i backup using this method then wiped the server to install OMV and then setup docker and restore the remotely backup? If that even possible

[jorgegomez]

Great as always. Your point of view, have on a rpi4, nginx, duplicati, cloud flare dns, wordpress, synching, nextcloud, transmission. And what roads more containers like home assistant that right now is working on a separate pi. I have an old g5 mac pro Intel processors. Thinking of using it has a server for more applications that need the horse power which will you think I should move? Thank s

[andrewpndavies]

HI - just posted on the previous Duplicati video - similar question though - can this work with Docker volumes and does it matter if it is a Bind mount or a Volume? Thanks -

[betogamer]

Do you know any way to backup a full windows system (all partitions) and deploy this image to multiple systems. I mean a kind of server client tool, hopefully with AD tools to auto join domain and tools like that?

[idriskautsar]

you save my live sir, thank you, but i have a question..
if the original server already corrupt, and duplicati run the backup job for that server, that's mean duplicati save the corrupt server ?
if yes, how we can prevent that ?

[myozone]

I guess for a total backup a clone (Proxmox) is the only way to go. Would the Duplicati way work for a total failure meaning everything gone on the docker/Portainer server and new install.

[girl-with-many-questions]

Regarding the latest (as of June 2022) Windows version of Duplicati. We can't find "full file backup", "incremental file backup", "differential file backup", "full image backup", "incremental image backup", and "differential image backup". (Some pretty simple, basic features that are available in MANY backup tools.) Are they not available in Duplicati? Or just very well hidden?

We are looking for a replacement for our current UrBackUp server... and thought Duplicati would be a good choice... but it just seems like a huge "loss of functions" if we switch.

[RameshKumar-rtxb]

Is it possible to restore that backed up data to some other particular machine

[MarinJuracic]

Hi, great video. I've got one question. If I delete container and stack of plex can I just go to duplicati and restore plex backup. Will it recreate container back by itself wothout copying claim server code? Thanx

[maxcharacterlimitreache-]

Thanks for the video but my question is: how will duplicati work if the os disk completely fails?
I followed your first part of the duplicati installation but if my SSD with the operating system fails what can I do?

[mattheww]

I had duplicati installed but i didnt usw it becauase i didnt really know how till now. My question/issue now is if this will work with something like nextcloud that uses a mariadb. I would like to move my nextcloud to a new server but i havent figured out how yet.

[streambarhoum]

How to that using rsync with crontab
And docker-compose?
Without the need of omv and duplicati.
(just In a professional way 😉) 😊✨🤩 could you please do video on that?