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I Tired of Trusting Bash Scripts With My Backups

DEV Community·nomad4tech·about 1 month ago
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TL;DR: I created a self-hosted web UI tool for PostgreSQL/MySQL/MariaDB backups from Docker containers. Auto-discovers containers, runs dumps inside them (so pg_dump always matches your DB version), no credentials in config files. Free, MIT licensed, Linux only One docker compose up - your databases, backed up GitHub: https://github.com/nomad4tech/backup-manager Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/nomad4tech/backup-manager Short Demo: https://youtu.be/3rXkPmOpDNc How I got here I've used and seen others use bash scripts for backups. Usually it's a massive script, or a set of scripts and pipelines - at minimum: create a dump, compress it, upload to S3, delete old files. All wired up via cron or systemd. I've watched this approach fail in ways that hurt: someone deleted the crontab.…

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