Best alternatives to DBackup in 2026

Everyone knows they should back up their databases; far fewer people have actually automated it, encrypted it, and tested that the restore works. DBackup is built to close that gap for self-hosted infrastructure specifically — it's less a single tool and more a small ops team's worth of backup discipline packaged into one self-hosted service: scheduled dumps of nine different database engines, encryption before anything leaves your server, and a web dashboard so a restore is a few clicks instead of a 2am scramble to remember the pg_dump syntax. DBackup is an open-source (GPL-3.0) backup automation tool covering PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Valkey, SQLite, MSSQL, Azure SQL, and Firebird, plus arbitrary file/directory backups. It encrypts everything with AES-256-GCM (with key rotation) and compresses with GZIP or Brotli, supports incremental backups with a GFS (grandfather-father-son) retention model, and ships to nine storage destinations (S3, Cloudflare R2, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, or local). It includes a web-based restore interface, real-time monitoring dashboard, nine notification channels, RBAC with SSO/OIDC, a REST API, and integrity verification via checksums — plus offline recovery kits in case the server itself is compromised.