What is portabase?

Portabase is an open-source tool that gives you a visual dashboard to back up and restore your databases. If you run your own servers or applications and worry about losing your data, Portabase lets you manage backup jobs and restore operations from a single web interface rather than running complicated command-line instructions for each database separately. It supports a wide range of database engines: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQLite, Redis, Valkey, Firebird, and Microsoft SQL Server. Most of these support both backup and restore, Redis and Valkey support backup only. The tool works by connecting to small "agent" programs that run alongside each database, handling the actual backup and restore operations securely. You can install Portabase through an automated command-line tool (the recommended path), directly via Docker (a containerization system that packages software so it runs the same way on any machine), using a Docker Compose configuration file for multi-container setups, or through Kubernetes with Helm charts for larger infrastructure environments. The project is self-hosted, meaning you run it on your own machines rather than relying on an external service. It is written in TypeScript and built with Next.js for the web interface. It is distributed under the Apache License, making it free to use and modify.