Dugbe is a simple tool to backup Railway.app hosted Databases.
Railway.app is a great infrastructure platform but at the moment, your best bet backing up a database is connecting AWS. Dugbe aims to make this process easier by providing a simple CLI tool to backup your data.
While this has not been battle tested as much as I would like, I currently use it to backup my Orchdio databases. I'd be glad to take a look at any issues you may have while trying to use the basic functionality ——backup some database.
- A Railway.app account.
- A project with a database. For now, its recommended to pass a project that has just 1 database plugin installed. This is because Dugbe will backup the first DB it gets back from the API.
- An API token. You can check the docs here to see how to you can get started with API.
pg_dumpinstalled on your machine. You may find this helpful on how to see how to install it on your machine.
# Install dugbe
Please install by cloning this repo. Then update your environment variables with your Railway.app API token. A sample .env file is provided.
# Run dugbe
dugbe backup --output './backup.sql` --service <your railway.app db hosted service> --database <the URL of the db you want to backup>- Add support for backing up multiple databases.
- Better UI and progress update.
- Env variable support from flag.
- Publish to crates.io
- Add support for other DBs. Currently only postgres is supported.
You may get an error like:
This seems to be a non-fatal error and this (tracking) issue might be helpful. I suspect this might be helpful because IIRC, Railway.app uses TimescaleDB for its Postgres offering.