Databasus

Teams and individual developers running PostgreSQL and other databases need reliable backups, but hand-rolled scripts lack scheduling UIs, multi-destination storage, retention policies and notifications. A backup that finishes without error is not the same as one you can actually restore, so silent restore failures are a real risk. Existing tools like pgBackRest, Barman or pg_dump require complex configuration files and command-line work rather than a simple dashboard. Databases behind closed networks or cloud-managed setups add further complexity for consistent, verifiable backup coverage.

Databasus is a self-hosted, Apache 2.0 licensed tool deployable via script, Docker, Docker Compose or Helm in about two minutes. It supports scheduled backups (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, cron), configurable health checks, and logical, physical, incremental and WAL backups built on PostgreSQL 17's native backup approach for point-in-time recovery. Backups can be sent to local disk, S3, Google Drive, Dropbox, NAS, SFTP or rclone, with notifications via Slack, Discord, Telegram, email or webhooks. It includes restore verification (restoring the latest backup into a throwaway container and checking row counts), AES-256-GCM encryption of credentials and backup files, read-only database access enforcement, team access management, and audit logs. It connects to remote or cloud-managed databases, including those behind closed networks via SSH tunnel.