Backups and restore

Backups are taken on demand. Scheduled backups are coming soon.

Create a backup

Open the database and click Backup in the header, or Create Backup in the Backups tab. The database must be running. The backup appears as Queued, then In progress, then shows its size when it’s done.

One backup per database runs at a time.

Engine	Backup	Restore
PostgreSQL	Yes (SQL dump)	Yes
MySQL	Yes (SQL dump)	Yes
MariaDB	Yes (SQL dump)	Yes
Redis	Yes (snapshot)	Not yet
RabbitMQ	No	No

Restore a backup

In the Backups tab, click the restore icon on a backup and confirm. The backup is restored into the same database and overwrites its current data. You can’t restore while a backup is running.

Keep and delete backups

Backups are kept until you delete them. Deleting the database deletes all its backups too.

Backups can’t be downloaded yet. For your own copy, use your engine’s tools, for example:

pg_dump "postgresql://USER:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT/DBNAME?sslmode=require" > backup.sql

With the API

# Start a backup (returns a backup_id)
curl -X POST "https://gw.dockhive.sh/api/v1/databases/$DB/backups?region=$REGION" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOCKHIVE_API_KEY"

# List backups
curl "https://gw.dockhive.sh/api/v1/databases/$DB/backups?region=$REGION" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOCKHIVE_API_KEY"

# Restore one (overwrites current data)
curl -X POST "https://gw.dockhive.sh/api/v1/databases/$DB/backups/BACKUP_ID/restore?region=$REGION" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DOCKHIVE_API_KEY"