Why I built a self-hosted centralized backup manager

There’s no shortage of backup tools. But none of them gave me a simple way to manage backups across multiple machines from one place, so I built my own. This is the architecture behind it. The problem I was managing backups for a small setup: two servers, a handful of Docker containers, and a few directories that needed regular backups. What I wanted was simple: one place to see all backups clear visibility on what ran, when, and whether it succeeded metrics like transferred dat