homelabstack/stacks/backup/README.md

backup stack

Kopia → Backblaze B2. Backs up /config, selected labdata paths (see SCOPE.md), and nightly SQL dumps.

Before first deploy

1. Backblaze B2 (recommended offsite — ~$6/TB/mo)

   • Create a bucket (e.g. valhalla-homelab-backup)
   • Create an Application Key scoped to that bucket
   • Note the S3 endpoint for your region

2. Fill stack.env

   • KOPIA_REPOSITORY_PASSWORD — openssl rand -hex 32
   • B2_KEY_ID, B2_APPLICATION_KEY, B2_BUCKET, B2_ENDPOINT

3. Host paths

   • /config/kopia/{config,cache,logs} — Kopia state
   • /config/backup/dumps — nightly SQL dumps
   • /config/backup/{init-kopia.sh,snapshot-paths.txt,crontab,scripts/} — copied from this repo (Portainer CE cannot bind-mount relative git paths; sync after editing those files)

4. Register new Portainer git stack → stacks/backup (one-time)

5. Push → Portainer redeploys within 5 min

After deploy

• UI: http://valhalla:51515 (or add backup.ginnoir.com internal-only in Caddy)
• Subscribe phone to ntfy topic backup (or path in NTFY_URL)
• Restore test (do once): pick a small dump from /config/backup/dumps/, restore to a throwaway container

Schedule

Time	What
02:50	backup-dump-databases.sh — SQL dumps
03:00	Kopia snapshots (paths in snapshot-paths.txt)

If B2 creds are empty

Kopia still starts with UI — configure repository manually, then set policies for each path in snapshot-paths.txt.