Tools and scripts for scheduling, managing, and automating data backups for self-hosted infrastructure and databases.
Kopia is a backup utility designed to create encrypted, deduplicated, and compressed snapshots of files and directories. It functions as a client-side tool that secures data locally before transmitting it to various storage targets, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected throughout the backup process. The system utilizes content-addressable block storage and metadata-driven versioning to identify and remove redundant data across multiple snapshots. By employing a pluggable storage abstraction layer, it supports a wide range of local, network, and cloud-based storage providers,
Kopia is a robust backup and disaster recovery tool that handles encrypted, deduplicated snapshots of files and volumes, though it requires external scripts or sidecars to perform database-specific dumps before backing up the resulting files.
Duplicati is a self-hosted backup server designed to perform encrypted, incremental, and compressed backups to a wide range of local, network, and cloud-based storage providers. It functions as a background service that automates recurring data protection tasks, ensuring that only changed data blocks are stored to maximize efficiency and minimize bandwidth usage. The project distinguishes itself through a centralized management console that allows for the orchestration of multiple distributed backup agents from a single web-based dashboard. It supports multi-tenant management, enabling the or
Duplicati is a robust backup utility that handles encrypted, incremental, and scheduled backups to cloud storage, though it functions primarily as a file-level backup tool rather than a database-specific snapshotting engine.
This project is a T-SQL maintenance framework and suite of automated scripts for SQL Server. It functions as a backup automator, index optimizer, and integrity checker designed to manage routine database administration tasks through a programmable set of stored procedures. The solution distinguishes itself through a focus on automated orchestration, including the ability to target or exclude databases within Availability Groups and the use of mirror-write backup streams for redundancy. It employs fragmentation-driven indexing to determine whether to rebuild or reorganize indexes based on user
This is a specialized T-SQL framework that automates database-level backups, integrity checks, and maintenance tasks directly within SQL Server, though it lacks the broader volume-level snapshotting capabilities of a general-purpose disaster recovery tool.
MyDumper is a high-performance logical backup and migration tool for MySQL. It provides utilities for executing parallel exports and imports of database data, enabling the creation of consistent point-in-time snapshots for large-scale environments. The tool distinguishes itself through multi-threaded parallel processing for both backup and restoration. It utilizes chunk-based logical partitioning and transaction-based snapshot isolation to ensure data consistency across multiple exported files while reducing the total time required to handle large datasets. The system includes capabilities f
This tool provides high-performance, parallelized logical backups and point-in-time snapshots specifically for MySQL and MariaDB databases, though it lacks the broader volume-level snapshotting and cloud-native scheduling features of a comprehensive disaster recovery suite.
Databasus is a self-hosted backup platform that automates PostgreSQL backups, verifies their restorability, and stores them across multiple destinations while managing team access with role-based permissions. It combines on-the-fly AES-256-GCM encryption, cron-driven scheduling, job-queue-based verification, multi-destination storage, WAL streaming, throwaway container restore testing, and workspace-based role access control into a unified backup system. The platform distinguishes itself through automatic backup verification that restores each backup into a temporary database container for in
Databasus is a dedicated self-hosted platform for automating PostgreSQL backups, verification, and multi-destination storage, though it is currently specialized for PostgreSQL rather than providing generic volume snapshotting for arbitrary persistent storage.
Backrest is a web-based management interface for Restic that orchestrates scheduled snapshots, manages offsite repositories, and provides a browser for file restoration. It serves as a scheduled backup orchestrator and remote storage manager to maintain data repositories across various backends. The system distinguishes itself through a backup lifecycle automation framework that triggers shell scripts and external notifications based on backup events. It includes a snapshot restoration browser that allows for exploring point-in-time snapshots to recover specific directories to local paths. T
Backrest provides a web-based orchestration layer for Restic that handles automated scheduling, snapshot management, and cloud storage integration, making it a capable tool for managing your backup lifecycle.
ZeroByte is a backup management platform built around the Restic backup engine, providing encrypted, deduplicated, and compressed snapshots across multiple storage backends. It offers a web interface for scheduling, monitoring, and managing backup operations, with support for cron-based job scheduling and configurable retention policies that automatically prune older snapshots. The platform distinguishes itself through comprehensive multi-protocol volume mounting, allowing backup ingestion from NFS, SMB, WebDAV, SFTP, and rclone-backed sources alongside local directories. It includes a snapsh
ZeroByte is a self-hosted backup management platform that leverages Restic to provide encrypted, scheduled, and multi-backend snapshots for volumes and directories, though it lacks native database-specific backup automation.
This project is a command-line utility designed for secure, content-addressable data archiving. It functions as an encrypted backup tool that stores data as deduplicated chunks, ensuring that every piece of information is identified by a cryptographic hash to maintain integrity across all backups. By applying strong encryption and message authentication codes to both data and metadata, the software prevents unauthorized access and detects potential tampering. The tool distinguishes itself through a backend-agnostic storage abstraction that allows users to maintain repositories across diverse
This is a robust, command-line backup utility that supports encrypted, deduplicated snapshots and cloud storage integration, making it a highly effective tool for managing persistent storage backups.
Dokploy is a self-hosted platform-as-a-service designed to simplify the deployment and management of containerized applications and databases. It provides a centralized control plane that decouples administrative management from application workloads, allowing users to oversee infrastructure across multiple server nodes through a unified web interface or a command-line tool. The platform distinguishes itself through an extensive library of pre-configured application templates, enabling the rapid deployment of databases, identity providers, and various productivity or development tools. It sup
Dokploy is a platform-as-a-service that includes built-in automated backup and restoration features for its managed containerized databases, making it a functional tool for these recovery tasks despite being a broader deployment platform.
OpenEBS is a container-native storage platform that provides persistent volumes for stateful applications running on Kubernetes. It operates through a Kubernetes-native microservice architecture, where storage controllers are managed entirely with kubectl and standard Kubernetes APIs, and offers both local and replicated block storage options. The platform distinguishes itself through synchronous NVMe-TCP replication, which replicates block data across nodes to enable pod rescheduling after node failure without data loss. It also includes a snapshot and clone engine for capturing point-in-tim
OpenEBS is a container-native storage platform that provides persistent volumes and snapshotting capabilities, but it relies on external tools like Velero to handle the actual automated backup and disaster recovery workflows.
1Panel is a centralized server management and container orchestration platform designed to simplify the administration of Linux-based infrastructure. It provides a unified web interface for managing containerized workloads, automating system maintenance, and configuring server resources. By acting as a comprehensive control plane, the platform streamlines the deployment of applications, databases, and web services while offering granular control over host system internals and security settings. What distinguishes this platform is its integrated support for private artificial intelligence infr
1Panel is a comprehensive server management platform that includes built-in automated backup and restoration features for databases and volumes, making it a suitable tool for managing these tasks alongside broader infrastructure administration.