gopster85 / stellar

Fast database snapshots for development. It's like Git for databases.

Stellar - Fast database snapshots for development. It's like Git for databases.

Stellar allows you to quickly restore database when you are e.g. writing database migrations, switching branches or messing with SQL. PostreSQL and MySQL are supported.

Benchmarks

Stellar is fast. It can restore database ~140 times faster than using the usual pg_dump & pg_restore.

How to get started

You can install Stellar with pip.

$ pip install stellar

After that, you should go to your project folder and initialize Stellar settings. Stellar initialization wizard will help you with that.

$ stellar init

Stellar settings are saved as 'stellar.yaml' so you probably want to add that to your .gitignore.

$ echo stellar.yaml >> .gitignore

Done! 👯

How to take a snapshot

$ stellar snapshot SNAPSHOT_NAME

How to restore from a snapshot

$ stellar restore SNAPSHOT_NAME