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resticRestoreSnapshot forgives the un-mappable-uid lchown failures so a restore is not aborted by them, and reported: "expected, they are already owned correctly". That is true only for LibrePortal's own files, whose owner is the backup user restic already runs as. It is false for container-owned data. _resticUsernsPrefix maps the subuid range and root, but unshare takes one range per option so the backup user's own GID is never mapped — and app data is written as <container-uid>:<backup-user>. Every such chown fails with EINVAL and the file falls back to <backup-user>:<backup-user>. Verified directly: 231543:231543 applies, 231543:1002 does not. Observed on a 13-app restore: grafana's grafana.db is recorded as 231543:1002 and landed as 1002:1002, so grafana (running as 231543) could not write it at mode 0640 and died with "attempt to write a readonly database" — under a restore that reported success. 1626 of that run's 2086 failed chowns were grafana's. This commit does not fix the mapping — that is the backup engine's ownership handling rather than the first-run restore path, and the candidate fixes (newuidmap multi-range maps, or restoring as root via a path-validated helper) want a decision first. See docs/roadmap/first-run-restore.md §3.5. What it fixes is the reporting: count the files and say plainly that container-owned data was not reinstated and the app may fail to write. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LibrePortal
Your own private corner of the internet — free, open, and yours.
LibrePortal is a self-hosted platform for running the apps you rely on, on your own server: one-click installs, a reverse proxy with automatic SSL, rootless Docker, optional VPN routing, and a clean web dashboard to manage it all.
⚠️ v0.1.0 — early days. Expect rough edges while things settle.
Why LibrePortal
Too many services today treat your data as theirs to take — quietly overstepping boundaries that should never have been crossed. LibrePortal grew out of frustration with that: it's a way to run the apps you depend on on your own server, where your data stays yours. Privacy here isn't a feature to toggle — it's the whole point.
Free & open — forever
The entire platform is free software under the GNU AGPLv3. Self-host it and you get everything — every feature, no paywalls, no telemetry. See our Promise for exactly what that means.
What you get
- 📦 One-click self-hosted apps (Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Gitea, …)
- 🔀 Traefik reverse proxy + automatic Let's Encrypt SSL
- 🔒 Rootless Docker, CrowdSec, sane security defaults
- 🛡️ Optional VPN routing (gluetun) for any app
- 🖥️ A web dashboard to install, configure, back up, and monitor everything
Quick start
curl -fsSL https://get.libreportal.org/install.sh | sudo bash
This installs a versioned, checksum-verified release (Debian/Ubuntu, root). Put
data on separate disks with --system-dir= / --containers-dir= / --backups-dir=.
The
get.libreportal.orghost is still being set up — until it's live, build a release and install from it locally (see the docs below).
Documentation
- docs/guide/install-and-use.md — install, place data on separate disks/drives, update, back up, uninstall.
- docs/contributing/development.md — run a dev copy, cut stable/edge releases, and test them before publishing.
LibrePortal Connect (optional)
Self-hosting is free and complete. If you'd rather not fiddle with the tricky parts — like reaching your server from your phone, or keeping off-site backups — LibrePortal Connect will handle them for you. Here's the catch that makes us different: we work like a courier carrying a sealed box. We move your data between your devices and store backup copies, but it stays locked and you hold the only key — we can't open it, and we never run your apps for you. Everything we offer, you can also set up yourself for free. Our Promise spells out exactly where that line sits.
Contributing
PRs welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md. We use a lightweight
DCO sign-off (git commit -s), no CLA.
Acknowledgments
LibrePortal has been built from scratch since 2023. Its spark of inspiration
was a small installer script from Brian McGonagill (OpenSourceIsAwesome):
gitlab.com/bmcgonag/docker_installs.
From that seed it grew start to finish — refined, extended, and refactored
into the platform it is today.
License
GNU AGPLv3. What's open stays open.