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24 alternatives to DB Backups

An easy way to manage all your Heroku backups

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. DB Backups launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    BackHub▲77

    Backup your GitHub Repositories

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Deploy your applications to any cloud provider or your own servers. No lock-in, full control. From 1 to 1000 servers with Cloud 66

    2013 · cloud66.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Automatically put your Heroku apps to sleep, so you save 💵

    2020 · autoidle.com · its alternatives →

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    Porter▲415

    Heroku that runs in your own cloud

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    DBacked▲148

    Simple, secure database backup as a service 🛠️

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Get daily, automated backups of your SaaS apps

    2024 · probackup.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi, most people (hopefully) have local backups. However, when that backup fails, it is good to have a backup stored somewhere off-site. In the old days you would ship physical drives/tapes, which is cumbersome, costly, and slow. With fast upload speeds, it is now possible to upload your data to the cloud. I have found S3 Glacier Deep Archive to be a great solution for this: - It is very cheap ($1/TB/month for US region) - Very reliable (99.999999999% data durability, data spread over 3 Availability Zones) However, usability out of the box is not that great, I'm not aware of…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Never lose data on Jira Cloud

    2023 · hycu.com · its alternatives →

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    coolLabs: Software without compromise. Free, open source, and built for you.

    2021 · coollabs.io · its alternatives →

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    Backup and monitor your server, files & DB

    2024 · boostbackup.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Super-simple database backups

    2020 · snapshooter.com · its alternatives →

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    Heroku▲115

    Cloud application platform

    2014 · heroku.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy Django on a cloud server you own. Appliku manages the server, and its CLI and agent skill let your AI coding agent deploy and diagnose your app.

    2021 · appliku.com · its alternatives →

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    Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS/GCP/DO)

    2021 · porter.run · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosting platform with superpowers. Deploy apps, databases & 280+ services to your server. Open-source alternative to Heroku.

    2022 · coolify.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple & minimalist; super fast backup software.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Website & database backups with smart features and an API

    2019 · simplebackups.com · its alternatives →

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    Agent based database, file and server backup infrastructure

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN - I’m Peter, here with Harry (devhawk), and we’re building DBOS Java, an open-source Java library for durable workflows, backed by Postgres. https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-java Essentially, DBOS helps you write long-lived, reliable code that can survive failures, restarts, and crashes without losing state or duplicating work. As your workflows run, it checkpoints each step they take in a Postgres database. When a process stops (fails, restarts, or crashes), your program can recover from those checkpoints to restore its exact state and continue from where…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    Turn your CSV files into live databases in seconds

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Mat-cha▲87

    Keep your free Heroku app awake forever

    2020 · matc-ha.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Dokku▲90

    Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Manage Backblaze computer backup & B2 cloud storage

    2017 · backblaze.com · its alternatives →

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