# Restoredrill

> Proves your PostgreSQL backups actually restore, before you find out the hard way.

- **Website:** https://github.com/ahmadpiran/restoredrill
- **Pricing:** unknown
- **Categories:** Data & Analytics, Developer Tools
- **Tags:** data-analytics, developer-tools, design
- **Platforms:** CLI
- **Last verified:** 2026-09-10
- **Canonical page:** https://linkrena.com/tools/restoredrill

## About

Untested backups aren't backups. restoredrill proves your PostgreSQL backups actually restore. It fetches the latest backup, restores it into a throwaway Postgres container, runs checks you define, and writes a JSON report with the restore time.

Status: v0.1.0, early days. Postgres only. Things may still change.

Everyone knows they should test restores. Almost nobody does, because there's nowhere safe to restore to and never enough time. Teams that automate it usually hand-roll a cron job and a script, and those fail quietly: the drill stops running, or starts restoring the same stale file, and nobody notices for a month.

A policy doc is easy to fake, on purpose or by accident. "We test quarterly" could have been written last week with nothing actually run in a year. A timestamped, machine-generated report is harder to fake.

If you're doing SOC 2, ISO 27001, or an AWS Foundational Technical Review, this is the shape of evidence they ask for: real logs from real restores, tied to what ran and when.

Databasus is a solid self-hosted backup platform for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB, with a full web UI and restore verification built in. If you want one dashboard managing backups across several database engines, start there. BackupDrill does something close to this for Supabase specifically, including Storage files.

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