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Practical guides, deep dives, and best practices from the team behind Portabase.

How to Migrate PostgreSQL 17 to 18 with Portabase
Upgrade from PostgreSQL 17 to 18 without hand-written dump scripts - back up, migrate, and restore your data with Portabase, with a rollback path at every step.
Charles Gauthereau
Oct 26, 20264 min read
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guideHow to Back Up Nextcloud with Portabase
Deploy Nextcloud with Docker, then configure Portabase to back up and restore its Docker volumes - from installation to your first backup.
Charles Gauthereau
Jul 15, 20264 min
storyWhy Backup Tools Should Not Connect to Your Databases Directly
Pull-based backup architectures introduce unnecessary risk. Here's why the agent-based model is the right architectural choice for security, compliance, and operational scale.
Killian Larcher
Apr 22, 20264 min
newsWe just reached 500 GitHub stars!
A small milestone with big meaning for the future of Portabase.
Killian Larcher
Mar 4, 20264 min
storyWhy we Rewrote the Agent in Rust
Moving the Portabase agent from Python to Rust removed entire classes of runtime failure, improved streaming efficiency, and simplified deployment across heterogeneous infrastructure.
Charles Gauthereau
Feb 15, 20264 min