Restic (or rustic) and Hetzner storage box 🤩

Or you can directly use Glowing Bear without installing anything.

Well, if you want private images it is normal that they charge you for it. What I advise you to do is to make the images public and mount the private part as a volume. This way you can upload the images wherever you want without worrying.

Another option if you want the resulting image to have something private is to create as much as you can in a public image and have a script that adds the private part as the last layer.

Apart from the registries you have in GitLab and GitHub if you are looking for something more generic like Docker Hub you have Quay (from RedHat). It works very well and has a pretty nice interface (especially the new one that is in testing).

You don’t really need Cloudflare to have your own domain, you can do everything directly with GitHub.

Before using borg I would recommend you to take a look at restic. In my opinion it is better in everything than borg.

As for how to backup the database, my advice is to export the database to a SQL file and backup that file. That will always be easier than having to deal with agents that connect to the database.

As for the number of repositories, if you use restic, a single repository is enough. Besides, as restic does deduplication, if you have the same files between your machines, they will only occupy the space of one. ;-)

I hope I have helped you with some of my ideas.

Best regards.