In simple English
Your databases hold your most important data, but writing backup scripts is tedious. Portabase gives you a web page to manage backups for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB and other popular databases. You can schedule regular snapshots and restore them with a click. It runs on your own server, so your database credentials stay under your control. It is free and open-source under the Apache 2.0 licence.
What it is
Portabase is a self-hosted database backup and restore manager built with TypeScript and Docker. It connects to a helper agent to run backups securely across different servers.
What it is good for
Solo builders who manage multiple databases across servers and want a single web dashboard to schedule backups and restore data without writing custom cron scripts.
- Supports nine popular database engines and Docker volumes in one tool.
- Provides a clean web dashboard for manual backups and scheduled snapshots.
- Keeps your data and credentials on your own server under an open-source licence.
- Requires Docker (a way to run a program inside its own sealed box, so it cannot break anything else on your server) to be installed first.
- Managing multiple server agents adds complexity compared to a simple local script.
- Does not support restoring Redis or Valkey backups directly from the panel.
manual bash scripts and cron jobs for database dumps
Docker (a way to run a program inside its own sealed box, so it cannot break anything else on your server) and PostgreSQL (a popular open-source SQL database)
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curl -s https://portabase.io/install.sh | bash