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24 alternatives to Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

Proves your PostgreSQL and MySQL backups actually restore, before you find out the hard way. - ahmadpiran/restoredrill

Restoredrill is a tool that verifies PostgreSQL and MySQL backups can actually be restored before a crisis occurs. It fetches the latest backup, restores it in a temporary container, runs user-defined checks, and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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   Stellar – Git for PostreSQL and MySQL▲325

   Fast database snapshot and restore tool for development - fastmonkeys/stellar

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Postgresus▲35

   Open source PostgreSQL backup tool

   Dec 2025 · its alternatives →

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   DBacked▲148

   Simple, secure database backup as a service 🛠️

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   RestoreCtl▲2

   Prove your PostgreSQL backups will actually work

   Jul 2026 · restorectl.com · its alternatives →

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   Uphold – Tool for programmatically verifying database backups▲89

   A tool for programmatically verifying database backups - forward3d/uphold

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Plakar▲288

   It’s still young, but they are shipping fast, and it's open source. Anyone else playing with it?

   2025 · plakar.io · its alternatives →

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   Serverless Postgres▲159

   This is a MVP for Serverless Postgres. 1/ It uses Fly.io[0], which can automatically pause your database after all connections are released (and start it again when new connections join). 2/ It uses Oriole[1], a Postgres extension with experimental support for S3 / Decoupled Storage[2]. 3/ It uses Tigris[3], Globally Distributed S3-Compatible Object Storage. Oriole will automatically backup the data to Tigris using background workers. I wouldn't recommend using this in production, but I think it's in a good spot to provoke some discussion and ideas. You can get it running…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Open source, logical multi-master PostgreSQL replication▲151

   Logical multi-master PostgreSQL replication. Contribute to pgEdge/spock development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Pg_replicate – Build Postgres replication applications in Rust▲216

   A high-performance Postgres replication engine written in Rust. Embed it in your Rust application or run it as a standalone binary. - supabase/etl

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests▲379

    In-memory Postgres for unit/E2E tests. Contribute to hexclave/pgmock development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    BemiDB – Postgres read replica optimized for analytics▲209

    Hi HN! We're Evgeny and Arjun, and we’re building a better way to do analytics with Postgres. We love Postgres for its simplicity, power, and rich ecosystem. But engineers have to still get bogged down with heavyweight and expensive OLAP systems when connecting an analytics data stack. Postgres is amazing at OLTP queries, but not for OLAP queries (large data scans and aggregations). Even in this case, we’ve still heard from countless scaling startups that they still try to use only a read replica to run analytics workloads since they don’t want to deal with the data engineering complexity of…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Version Control for Databases▲224

    Version control for databases: save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line - infostreams/db

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    DBOS Java – Postgres-Backed Durable Workflows▲114

    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 →

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    A tool to seed your dev database with real data▲129

    A bunch of developers and myself have created RepliByte - an open-source tool to seed a development database from a production database. Features: - Support data backup and restore for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB - Replace sensitive data with fake data - Works on large database (> 10GB) (read Design) - Database Subsetting: Scale down a production database to a more reasonable size - Start a local database with the prod data in a single command - On-the-fly data (de)compression (Zlib) - On-the-fly data de/encryption (AES-256) - Fully stateless (no server, no daemon) and lightweight…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Postgresus (PostgreSQL backups)▲7

    Scheduled PostgresSQL backups and PostgreSQL monitoring tool

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    MySQL Database Recovery tool▲4

    Software to Recover Corrupt MySQL Database files

    2022 · convertertools.org · its alternatives →

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    Revive▲205

    A free tool to find content decay and help win back traffic

    2019 · revive.animalz.co · its alternatives →

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    Relica – Cross-platform local, remote, and multi-cloud file backups▲132

    Immutable cloud storage with multi-cloud redundancy. Zero-knowledge encryption, unlimited devices. Built on restic — no vendor lock-in. From $5/month.

    2018 · relicabackup.com · its alternatives →

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    MySQL Database File Recovery Tool▲4

    Repair and restore file content from corrupt MySQL Database

    2024 · databasefilerecovery.com · its alternatives →

20. 20PC
    PGBackup.com, Postgres backup as a service▲46

    2016 · pgbackup.com · its alternatives →

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    UpBack! Database Backup and Recovery ▲12

    Effortless Data Backup and Recovery for Modern Databases

    2024 · upback.cloud · its alternatives →

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    Databasus – open-source backup tool for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB▲10

    I had a post in the start of December about Postgresus 2.0: self hosted tool for PostgreSQL. Since then the project changed the name and added support of other databases: MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB. Website - https://databasus.com GitHub - https://github.com/databasus/databasus Main features: - Scheduled backups for multiple PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB databases - Storage to S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Drive, Azure Blob, NAS, SFTP, rclone, etc. - Notifications about backup status via email, Telegram, Slack, Discord, MS Teams and customizable webhooks -…

    Dec 2025 · databasus.com · its alternatives →

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    Aryson MySQL Database Repair▲9

    Seamless MySQL Repair: Restore your Data

    2024 · arysontechnologies.com · its alternatives →

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    Portabase – open-source database backup/restore tool▲6

    I’m working on Portabase, a self-hosted, open-source tool for managing database backups and restores. It currently supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB, with MongoDB coming soon. It uses an agent-based architecture with a central server and lightweight agents, enabling deployment at the edge and operation across multiple networks. Website: https://portabase.io GitHub: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase Discord (newly created): https://discord.gg/Wgv7xZ8fWJ Main features: - Scheduled logical backups with multiple retention strategies…

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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