django-postgres-backup 1.0.0

Django managed commands to back up and restore a PostgreSQL database with multiple backup generations.

Django managed commands to backup and restore PostgreSQL databases with multiple generations

The django_postgres_backup Django module includes managed commands to back up and restore a PostgreSQL database with time stamped names to provide multiple backup generations.

Installation

To install, depending on your package manager, run:

pip install --update django_postgres_backup

or

poetry add django_postgres_backup

Usage

To add the backup related managed commands to your project, add it to settings.INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    "django_postgres_backup",
]

After this, you can backup the default database by running:

python manage.py postgres_backup

The created backup can now be restored by running:

python manage.py postgres_backup

You can clean and restore a whole database with all the tables and data

python manage.py postgres_restore --clean --if-exists

Configuration

You can set up how many generations of backup should be saved, all other will be deleted.

POSTGRES_BACKUP_GENERATIONS = 3

Limitations

Backup and restore works only with postgresql.

License

Copyright (c) 2022 ITELL.SOLUTIONS GmbH, Graz, Austria.

Distributed under the MIT license. For details refer to the file LICENSE.

The source code is available from https://github.com/itell-solutions/django_postgres_backup.