Duplicacy Autobackup

Duplicacy Autobackup is a Docker image to easily perform automated backups. It uses duplicacy under the hood, and therefore supports:

Multiple storage backends: S3, Backblaze B2, Hubic, Dropbox, SFTP...
Client-side encryption
Deduplication
Multi-versioning
... and more generally, all the features that duplicacy has.

Usage

The following environment variables can be used to configure the backup strategy.

BACKUP_NAME: The name of your backup (should be unique, e.g. prod-db-backups)
BACKUP_ENCRYPTION_KEY: An optional passphrase to encrypt your backups with before they are stored remotely.
BACKUP_SCHEDULE: Cron-like string to define the frequency at which backups should be made (e.g. 0 2 * * * for Every day at 2am). Note that this string should be indicated in the UTC timezone.
BACKUP_LOCATION: Duplicacy URI of where to store the backups.
- S3: s3://region@amazon.com/bucket/path/to/storage
- Backblaze B2: b2://my-bucket/
- ...

Additionally, the directory you want to backup must be mounted to /data on the container.

You need to provide credentials for the storage provider your of your choice using the following environment variables:

AWS S3: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_KEY
Backblaze B2: B2_ID and B2_KEY
Dropbox: DROPBOX_TOKEN
Azure: AZURE_KEY
Google Cloud Datastore: GCD_TOKEN
SSH/SFTP: SSH_PASSWORD or SSH_KEY_FILE*
Hubic: HUBIC_TOKEN_FILE*
Google Cloud Storage: GCS_TOKEN_FILE*
Onedrive: ONEDRIVE_TOKEN_FILE*

Environment variables marked with an asterix point to files. Those files must be mounted in the container so that they can be accessed from inside it.

If you want to execute an out of schedule backup, you can do so by running the script /app/backup.sh inside the container :

$ docker exec duplicacy-autobackup /app/duplicacy-autobackup.sh backup

Example

Backup /var/lib/mysql to the S3 bucket xtof-db-backups in the AWS region eu-west-1 every night at 2:00am, and encrypt them with the passphrase correct horse battery staple:

$ docker run -d --name duplicacy-autobackup \
    -v /var/lib/mysql:/data \
    -e BACKUP_NAME='prod-db-backups' \
    -e BACKUP_LOCATION='s3://eu-west-1@amazon.com/xtof-db-backups' \
    -e BACKUP_SCHEDULE='0 2 * * *' \
    -e BACKUP_ENCRYPTION_KEY='correct horse battery staple' \
    -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='AKIA...' \
    -e AWS_SECRET_KEY='...' \
    christophetd/duplicacy-autobackup

Viewing and restoring backups

Backups are useless if you don't make sure they work. This shows the procedure to list files, versions, and restore a duplicacy backup made using duplicacy-autobackup.

Install Duplicacy: download the latest Duplicacy binary from its Github page, and put it in your path
cd to a directory where you'll restore your files, e.g. /tmp/restore

Run duplicacy init backup_name backup_location, where backup_name and backup_location correspond to the BACKUP_NAME and BACKUP_LOCATION environment variables of your setup.

If you used client-side encryption, add the -encrypt flag: duplicacy init -encrypt backup_name backup_location

You will get a prompt asking for your storage provider's credentials, and, if applicable, your encryption key:

Enter S3 Access Key ID: *****
Enter S3 Secret Access Key: *************
Enter storage password for s3://eu-west-1@amazon.com/xtof-db-backups:*******************
The storage 's3://eu-west-1@amazon.com/xtof-db-backups' has already been initialized
Compression level: 100
Average chunk size: 4194304
Maximum chunk size: 16777216
Minimum chunk size: 1048576
Chunk seed: fc7e56fb91f8f66b01ba033ec6f7b128bcb3420c66a31468a4f3541407d569bd
/tmp/restore will be backed up to s3://eu-west-1@amazon.com/xtof-db-backups with id db-backups

To list the versions of your backups, run:

$ duplicacy list
Storage set to s3://eu-west-1@amazon.com/xtof-db-backups
Enter storage password:*******************
Snapshot db-backups revision 1 created at 2018-04-19 09:47 -hash
Snapshot db-backups revision 2 created at 2018-04-19 09:48 
Snapshot db-backups revision 3 created at 2018-04-19 09:49

To view the files of a particular revision, run:

$ duplicacy list -files -r 2  # 2 is the revision number

To restore in the current directory all the files matching *.txt of the revision 2 of the backup, run:
```
$ duplicacy restore -r 2 '*.txt'
```
To restore in the current directory the whole revision 2 of your backup, run:
```
$ duplicacy restore -r 2
```

More: see Duplicacy's documentation.

Other options

You can have duplicacy-autobackup run a script before and after the backup process by mounting scripts on /scripts/pre-backup.sh and /scripts/post-backup.sh. For instance if you're backing up a MySQL database, this script can involve doing a mysqldump into /data/mydb.sql. If pre-backup.sh exits with a non-zero status code, the backup will not be performed until the next scheduled backup.

Use the following environment variables if you want to customize duplicacy's behavior.

BACKUP_IMMEDIATELY (yes/no): indicates if a backup should be performed immediately after the container is started. Equivalent to launching the container and then running docker exec duplicacy-autobackup /app/duplicacy-autobackup.sh backup. By default, no.
DUPLICACY_INIT_OPTIONS: options passed to duplicacy init the first time a backup is made. By default, -encrypt if BACKUP_ENCRYPTION_KEY is not empty.
DUPLICACY_BACKUP_OPTIONS: options passed to duplicacy backup when a backup is performed. By default: -threads 4 -stats. If you are backing up a hard drive (and not a SSD), it is recommended to use -threads 1 -stats instead (see here for more details).

Disclaimer

This project uses Duplicacy, which is free for personal use but requires purchasing a licence for non-trial commercial use. See the detailed terms here.

Contact

Feel free to open an issue for any suggestion or bug. You can also tweet @christophetd.