Backups & restore

Helicarrier Cloud backs up your managed databases automatically, and lets you take snapshots on demand and restore with one click.

Automatic daily backups

For PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, and Redis, Helicarrier takes a daily backup without any configuration. Backups run on a schedule and are stored for you.

On-demand backups

Need a snapshot right now — before a risky migration, say? Trigger an on-demand backup from the database’s Backups tab. It runs immediately and joins the same retention pool as the automatic ones.

Retention

Backups are kept for 7 days. After each run, backups older than 7 days are pruned — with one safeguard: the most recent backup is always kept, even if it is older than 7 days, so a database that has not been backed up recently never ends up with none.

Restore

To restore, open the Backups tab, pick a backup, and choose Restore. Helicarrier restores that snapshot into the database. Restores overwrite current data, so use an on-demand backup first if you want a fallback point.

You can also download a backup to keep a copy outside the platform.

Importing from an existing database

Migrating in from another host? Helicarrier can import data from an external PostgreSQL or MongoDB by connection URL — it runs a dump-and-restore inside the managed container. This is handy when moving from another provider; point it at your old database and let it pull the data across.

Tip

For app-level rollbacks (reverting your code), use Deploys & rollback. Backups are for your data; rollback is for your service version. They are independent.

Next

• Connect your services in Connect to your database.
• Keep credentials safe with environment variables.