Ironmount

Powerful backup automation for your remote storage
Encrypt, compress, and protect your data with ease

Backup management with scheduling and monitoring

Warning

Ironmount is still in version 0.x.x and is subject to major changes from version to version. I am developing the core features and collecting feedbacks. Expect bugs! Please open issues or feature requests

Intro

Ironmount is a backup automation platform that helps you protect your data across multiple storage backends. Built on top of Restic, it provides an intuitive web interface to schedule, manage, and monitor encrypted backups of your remote storage. With support for Docker integration, Ironmount makes it easy to backup your container volumes automatically.

Features

• 💾  Automated backups with encryption, compression and retention policies powered by Restic
• 📅  Flexible scheduling using cron expressions for automated backup jobs
• 🔐  End-to-end encryption ensuring your data is always protected
• 📦  Snapshot management with retention policies to optimize storage usage
• 📊  Monitoring and statistics to track backup health and storage usage
• ✅  Multi-protocol support: Backup from NFS, SMB, WebDAV, or local directories
• 🔍  Health checks and automatic recovery to ensure backup reliability

Installation

In order to run Ironmount, you need to have Docker and Docker Compose installed on your server. Then, you can use the provided docker-compose.yml file to start the application.

services:
  ironmount:
    image: ghcr.io/nicotsx/ironmount:v0.5.0
    container_name: ironmount
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    ports:
      - "4096:4096"
    devices:
      - /dev/fuse:/dev/fuse
    volumes:
      - /var/lib/ironmount/:/var/lib/ironmount/

Then, run the following command to start Ironmount:

docker compose up -d

Once the container is running, you can access the web interface at http://<your-server-ip>:4096.

Backups

Third-Party Software

This project includes the following third-party software components:

Restic

Ironmount includes Restic for backup functionality.

• License: BSD 2-Clause License
• Copyright: Copyright (c) 2014, Alexander Neumann alexander@bumpern.de
• Status: Included unchanged
• License Text: See LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause-Restic.txt

For a complete list of third-party software licenses and attributions, please refer to the NOTICES.md file.