Backup as a Service
Hey!
I'm thinking of a SaaS product that could be used to backup your essential files (database backups, images, other important assets) programmatically. Basically, with an API request.
You will have a frontend where you can see all the files, details or upload with drag/drop.
As all applications under the coollabs.io name, it will be full open-sourced, self-hostable, and privacy-focused.
There is already s3 api and minio is an open source application that supports it
What matters for backup is not only the code but also the storage itself
Imagine you put your db backups on your own hosted server and then when you need it you find out the disk has crashed
Thats why i always backup my stuff on s3
Yeah, there are examples, but most of them are hard or need some specific skills to maintain.
If you host something, you probably need to take care of the system, but you have full ownership of everything.
I'm thinking of providing a paid version of this, so you do not need to care about the host but still have the option to use your own servers if you want to.
We run https://backrightup.com - happy to answer any questions you like
The costs and responsabilities behind it are humongous. You need to pay for the space (double at least, since you need YOUR backup), AND the security, AND the uptime, AND the law regulations (GDPR, for example), AND - moreover - you need to gain user trust. The idea is fine, but there are already very strong alternatives (Amazon, Google, MSOne, Apple, Dropbox, Mega, and countless others) and the hurdles are very high.
I don't want to discourage you, just a warning. As we say in Italy, "uomo avvisato mezzo salvato" (literally: "if you warn someone you're halfway to saving him", kind of "
"forewarned is forearmed")
what you think about dropbox or google or other services that already do that for you when you upload your files
Yeah, true, but not sure if you be able to upload files via a simple API request, and they are closed sourced, not self-hostable.
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