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Building a Reliable Homelab Backup System with Zerobyte

3.0K views· 96 likes· 17:09· Dec 31, 2025

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Setup file backups with Zerobyte! Github Repo: https://github.com/nicotsx/zerobyte Interested in other Homelab videos? Check out this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhkW8M2MBf-H33LeTrVMc0LwN3EuOqGQV Wanting to automate your builds with Gitlab and Ansible? Check out this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhkW8M2MBf-Gjb5qI-f1vPbXN530Hd1-3 For Business Inquiries you can email me at: sassdrew501@gmail.com

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In this homelab video I’m walking through Zerobyte, a backup tool I found on the self-hosted subreddit, and honestly I love it. The big win is that it gives you a clean GUI while still using restic on the backend, so you’re not stuck doing everything in the terminal with cron jobs and guessing what’s happening. I spin it up the easy way with Docker Compose on an Oracle Linux 8 VM, start/enable Docker, and bring Zerobyte up on port 4096 so you can hit the web UI and create your admin user. From there I show how Zerobyte thinks: “Volumes” are what you want to back up (directory/NFS/Samba/WebDAV/rclone), and “Repositories” are where those backups go (local, S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP, etc.). For the demo I use a local repo even though it’s not ideal for a real 3-2-1 strategy, then I create a backup job, pick exactly which folders/files to include with the UI, set a daily schedule, and run it manually to prove it works. I also test restore (overwrite to original location) and it successfully rolls my file back, which is exactly what I want from a reliable homelab backup workflow.

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