lminlone/repliqate

Repliqate is a backup tool built specifically for Docker environments. Instead of you writing custom scripts to back up each container's data, Repliqate watches your containers and volumes and manages the backup process for you, including safely pausing or coordinating containers so the backed up data stays consistent rather than getting corrupted mid write. The way you configure Repliqate is through Docker labels, small pieces of metadata you attach directly to a container or volume in your Docker Compose file. You mark a container as something Repliqate should back up, set a schedule using either a simple format like once a day at 3am or a full cron expression, give the backup job an ID, and set how long backups should be kept before older ones are cleaned up. Repliqate itself runs as a Docker container, so it fits naturally alongside the containers it is protecting. In its own configuration it needs access to the Docker socket so it can see and manage other containers, along with the folder where backups will be stored and the location of Docker's volume data. Because everything is expressed as labels on the services you already run, adding backup coverage to a new container is usually just a few extra lines in an existing compose file rather than a separate backup system to maintain. The project is aimed at people who self host applications with Docker and want reliable, low effort backups without hand rolling scripts around tools like restic. The README itself is fairly short and focused mainly on the quick start configuration, with fuller documentation kept in a separate hosted site linked from the project. Repliqate is released under the MIT License, so it can be used and modified freely.