SQLBackup exists because we've been there: a production database gone, a backup that didn't exist, and a very long night. We built the tool we wished we'd had.
A routine deploy. A migration that did more than it should have. By the time anyone noticed, a core table was empty in production — and the "nightly backup" turned out to be a cron job that had been failing silently for weeks.
We recovered, eventually, by stitching together fragments. But the lesson stuck: a backup you don't monitor, can't restore, and didn't encrypt is not a backup. Most teams are one bad query away from finding that out the hard way.
SQLBackup is our answer. It does the boring, critical work correctly — across every database engine we've had to support — so the next 3 AM is a non-event.
"Is there a backup?" → silence → scramble → data loss.
sqlbackup restore → verified copy in minutes → back to sleep.
Encryption on by default, sane retention, and a restore path we actually test. The defaults should keep you safe even if you never tune them.
Open source, standard crypto, no telemetry. You shouldn't have to take our word for anything — you can read the code.
Good backups shouldn't be a luxury. SQLBackup is MIT licensed and free — for a homelab or a company.
Backups should be uneventful. We optimize for "it just worked again last night," not flashy dashboards full of noise.
No pitch, no paywall. Download it, point it at a database, and sleep a little easier tonight.
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