Access the Dashboard

Open http://localhost:3000 and create your account.

The dashboard gives you an overview of all your backups, success rates, and storage usage.

Add a Database Connection

1. Navigate to Connections in the sidebar
2. Click Add Connection
3. Fill in your database details:

Name: My Production DB
Type: PostgreSQL
Host: host.docker.internal
Port: 5432
Database: myapp_production
Username: postgres
Password: ••••••••

For remote databases behind a firewall:

Expand the SSH Tunnel section and enable it:

SSH Enabled: ✅
SSH Host: bastion.example.com
SSH Port: 22
SSH Username: deploy
SSH Auth Method: Private Key or Password

4. Click Test Connection to verify it works
5. Click Save Connection

Run Your First Backup

From the Connections page:

1. Find your newly created connection
2. Click Backup Now
3. Watch the backup progress in real-time

Your backup will appear in the History page once complete!

Schedule Automatic Backups

Never miss a backup again:

1. Go to Connections
2. Click the Schedule icon on your connection
3. Choose your backup frequency:
   • Hourly - Every hour
   • Daily - Once per day at a specific time
   • Weekly - Once per week
   • Monthly - Once per month
   • Custom - Use a cron expression

Example schedules:

# Every day at 2 AM
0 2 * * *

# Every 6 hours
0 */6 * * *

# Every Sunday at midnight
0 0 * * 0

4. Set retention policy (optional):

   • Keep backups for 7, 14, 30, or 90 days
   • Older backups are automatically deleted

5. Click Save Schedule

Download or Compare Backups

From the History page:

Download a backup:

• Click the download icon next to any backup
• The backup file will download to your computer

Compare two backups:

• Click Compare Backups or click the compare icon on any backup
• Select two backups to compare
• View a detailed diff showing what changed between them