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Portabase v1.10 - database backup/restore tool, now supporting Firebird SQL
https://github.com/Portabase/portabase
Hi community,
I’m one of the maintainers of Portabase, I shared it here for the first time two weeks ago and I have now some updates!
After an initial request from a community user in mid-January, and a few more along the way, we’ve finally added support for Firebird SQL. It seems to have a solid community behind it even though I hadn’t heard of it before.
Quick recap : Portabase is an open-source platform for database backup and restore.
Repository: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase
So it now we support 8 databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, Valkey and Firebird SQL
What’s new in version 1.10: - Support for Firebird SQL (obviously) - Healthchecks for both the database and the agent (with optional notifications) - End-to-end tests to prevent regressions (coverage is still light, but we’re working on it)
What’s coming next: - Support for Microsoft SQL Server
If you’re using Firebird SQL (or any other supported database), we’d really appreciate your feedback. Feel free to open issues if you find any bugs.
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Is there any competition or is this the first of its kind for Docker? Curious as I’m new to self-hosting.
There are a few other tools. Docker Desktop has some backup-related tooling, but not through a web UI. Portainer may cover part of it too, but I’m not 100% sure.
You can also use generic file-level backup tools, since Docker volumes are basically files at the end of the day.
Portabase is more focused on backup and restore workflows. The goal is to have the full ecosystem around that: storage providers, notifications, retention policies, RBAC, agents, homogenous migration, etc.
Nice. I’d like to change Linux distros on my server but the main thing holding me back was all my containers, sidecars, reverse proxies, etc. If I could easily back up and restore that would be amazing.
Feel free to give it a try if you have time, and don’t hesitate to open GitHub issues if you run into any bugs.
I was actually looking for a nice self-hosted too like this. I’ve also added Portabase to OpenAltFinder so that others can find it too.
Thanks for adding Portabase to OpenAltFinder! I missed your message earlier, but I appreciate it.
Ente as altrrnative to Google Authenticator? I think their’s a mistake there.
Ente Auth is an alternative to other 2FA tools tho. It’s just that it’s part of the whole Ente suite.
clifmoNice to see the flurry of activity on this young project. I Considering deploying to my swarm to handle restore only. I have a bare metal db VM using cron to dump dbs, and autorestic handles retention with deduplication. This works well for me since my homelab is generally pretty quiet.
Two things I’d like/want to see: deduplication either via supporting Restic as a backup backend and swarm-style SECRET_FILE support (I forked and may PR this one)
Thanks for the feedback! Feel free to open issues for these ideas. A PR for SECRET_FILE support would be very welcome.
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Looks very interesting, will try this out. pg_dump and restore stresses me out
Thanks! PostgreSQL is well supported (it was the first database implemented). Feel free to open an issue on GitHub if you want to suggest any improvements.
I had a quick look at the docs… so, can I backup my DB version X and restore it to DB version Y?
Hi, Portabase handles database backup and restoration. It does not manage the migration process, so it depends on the type of database and whether migration is handled automatically or not.
So to jump on this question because I am also interested: I can use this to create a backup of database version x and migrate to y and the backup again. Or if migrating goes bad restore x from backup
I want to use it to backup my overleaf instance and mongodb that it uses