Database integrity is critical for any data heavy application. That's why we're happy to introduce Database Backups on Appwrite, a feature designed to give you full control over the safety and recoverability of your data without any downtime. This is also a crucial milestone for Appwrite Cloud to get closer to the much anticipated GA release.
Whether you're running production workloads or handling large datasets, Appwrite now makes it easier to back up your databases, securely and efficiently with just a few clicks on your Appwrite Console.
Database Backups are now available on Appwrite Cloud for all paid plans.
What are Appwrite Database Backups?
Appwrite Database Backups help you take a backup of your database with minimal impact to your production performance, ensuring your operations continue smoothly.
Encryption
Security is a top priority, and Appwrite ensures that all database backups are fully encrypted both in transit and at rest. This encryption protects your sensitive information from unauthorized access or breaches. Even if a backup was intercepted or compromised, the encryption ensures that your data remains unreadable to unauthorized parties, providing an extra layer of security essential for meeting compliance requirements and ensuring data integrity.
Appwrite uses standard TLS communication to transmit all backups securely and ensures that the files are encrypted while at rest.
Hot backups
All database backups are hot, meaning they are created without causing any downtime or interruptions to your services. This is especially critical for production environments where uptime and performance are key.
By utilizing hot backups, your application can continue to operate as usual. At the same time, your data is being securely copied in the background, ensuring that backups are taken without impacting user experience or slowing down your operations.
Remote destination
Backups are stored in a geographically separate location, isolated from our primary data center in Frankfurt. This ensures full redundancy and strengthens your disaster recovery strategy. In the event of localized incidents—such as hardware failures, security breaches, or natural disasters—your data remains secure and recoverable, enabling rapid failover and minimizing operational downtime.
Automating Backups with Policies
You can enable automated backup policies to run in the background. This will ensure you have a daily backup that is stored for 7 days as part of the Pro plan. For added flexibility, manual backups can be initiated at any time. This is particularly useful for pre-deployment snapshots or in cases where immediate backup and restoration are required, giving you complete control over your data integrity with minimal downtime.
Scale and Enterprise plan
We offer more customization for the Scale and Enterprise plans using backup policies that offer granular control over your backup strategy, allowing you to:
Schedule backups at custom intervals or predefined schedules (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly) to match your operational requirements.
Set retention periods, ensuring backups are kept as long as necessary without accumulating unnecessary storage.
Specify precise execution times to align with low-traffic periods or maintenance windows, seamlessly integrating into your workflow.
Secure your databases
Database Backups is designed to offer comprehensive, secure, and automated backups for your project's Databases. With hot, encrypted backups, automated policies, and full control over your recovery process, it's an effective tool to safeguard your data. We're excited to see you use this new feature.
Do you have feedback? Let us know on Discord. Visit our documentation to learn how to set up a backup policy.
