yunussandikci / cron-backups

⏱️ Easy automated backups!

⏱️📦 Cron Backups

Cron backups is a docker image to automate periodic backups easily to Dropbox with only one Docker container!

Features

• Auto compression
• Periodic backups
• Multiple folder selection
• Tiny footprint (9Mb)
• Upload to Dropbox

Configuration

You need to set your backup folders as volumes and 2 environment variables.

Volumes

It backups every folder you mapped into /backup folder with volumes

Environment Variables

CRON: Crontab value to set period of backups. Ref: https://crontab.guru/

DROPBOX_TOKEN: Access Token you get for Dropbox folder. Ref: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/create

Example

Edit docker-compose and run with docker-compose up -d

version: '3'
services:
  caddy:
    image: yunussandikci/cron-backups
    volumes:
    - /Users/yunussandikci/Pictures/:/backup/Pictures  
    - /Users/yunussandikci/Downloads/:/backup/Downloads
    - /Users/yunussandikCci/Documents/Zoom/:/backup/Zoom
    environment:
      CRON: "* * * * *" 
      DROPBOX_TOKEN: "<dropbox_token>"