Deploy and Host Postgres 🥇 Daily Backups on Railway

Postgres 🥇 Daily Backups is a production-ready automated backup service for PostgreSQL databases. It orchestrates scheduled backups to S3 or Google Cloud Storage with built-in version compatibility, monitoring, and retention management - ensuring your data is always safe.

About Hosting Postgres 🥇 Daily Backups

Postgres 🥇 Daily Backups seamlessly integrates with Railway's PostgreSQL databases to provide enterprise-grade backup capabilities. It automatically detects your PostgreSQL version (15-17), performs efficient backups using the correct pg_dump version, and stores them with organized date-based directory structures. The service includes respawn protection to prevent excessive backups, Prometheus metrics for monitoring, health endpoints, and automatic cleanup of old backups based on your retention policy.

Common Use Cases

Compliance Requirements: Meet data retention policies with automated daily backups and configurable retention periods
Disaster Recovery: Protect against data loss with reliable off-site backups to S3 or GCS
Development Workflows: Create regular snapshots for testing, staging environment refreshes, or debugging production issues
Multi-Region Redundancy: Backup PostgreSQL data to different geographic regions for business continuity
Audit Trail: Maintain historical database states with timestamped, versioned backups

Dependencies for Postgres 🥇 Daily Backups Hosting

PostgreSQL Database: Any PostgreSQL instance (versions 15, 16, or 17 supported)
Storage Provider: Either Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage account with credentials
Railway Cron: For scheduled backup execution (e.g., daily at 3 AM)

Deployment Dependencies

Railway PostgreSQL Plugin - For database hosting
AWS S3 Documentation - For S3 storage setup
Google Cloud Storage Documentation - For GCS storage setup
Railway Cron Jobs - For scheduling backups

Implementation Details

Configure your backup schedule using Railway's cron syntax:

# Daily backup at 3 AM
RAILWAY_CRON_SCHEDULE="0 3 * * *"

# Every 6 hours
RAILWAY_CRON_SCHEDULE="0 */6 * * *"

Monitor backup health via built-in endpoints:

# Prometheus metrics
https://${{RAILWAY_STATIC_URL}}/metrics

# Health check with detailed status
https://${{RAILWAY_STATIC_URL}}/health

Why Deploy Postgres 🥇 Daily Backups on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Postgres 🥇 Daily Backups on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.