This week’s Cool Tech of the Week falls in the category of not every Tech Smart Boss needs it. But if you do have production databases and you don’t have a backup and recovery process in place, I can’t recommend this tool enough,
SQLBackupAndFTP.
I found myself on the wrong side of not having a good database backup recently, and believe me, you don’t want to experience that (especially when it involves a customer). In my case, I needed something that I could use to reliably and easily back up (and restore) a PostgreSQL database and to easily offload it from the server and store it in a secure cloud location.
SQLBackupAndFTP is one of the easiest, cost-effective, and most powerful ways that I have found to do it. There are GitHub code and basic scripting you can use to automate a backup, but for the price of SQLBackupAndFTP and the features they include, it’s just not worth the time to script (unless you have a lot).
In a split second, I had a database backup scheduled, a local copy maintained on the server, and an encrypted version stored in the cloud. Plus they have features to notify you via email of backup status, database status, and more.
