Roadmap

This page outlines planned features and improvements for DBackup. Features are subject to change based on community feedback and priorities.

🚀 Planned Features

Runner Resilience

• Retry Logic: Exponential backoff for transient errors (network timeouts, storage hiccups)
• Dead Letter Queue: Move repeatedly failing jobs to a separate status for investigation

Encryption Key Rotation

• Mechanism to rotate the ENCRYPTION_KEY without downtime
• Re-encrypt all stored secrets (DB passwords, SSO client secrets) with the new key
• Rotation guide in documentation

User Invite Flow

• Email-based user invitations
• Force password change on first login
• Integration with SMTP notification adapter

Backup Tags & Annotations

• Manually tag backups (e.g., "pre-migration", "before-upgrade")
• Pin backups to protect them from automatic retention policy deletion
• Filter and search by tags in Storage Explorer

Backup Anomaly Detection

• Alert if backup size deviates significantly from previous runs
• Periodic "test restore" as a scheduled task

📊 Dashboard & Monitoring

Backup Calendar View

• Visual overview of when backups ran (similar to GitHub contribution graph)
• Color-coded status (success, failed, skipped)

Prometheus Metrics Endpoint

• Expose /metrics endpoint for Prometheus scraping
• Metrics: backup count, duration, size, success rate, queue depth
• Grafana dashboard template

📚 Documentation

API Reference

• OpenAPI / Swagger documentation for all API endpoints
• Interactive API explorer

🧪 Testing & Quality

End-to-End Test Suite

• Playwright or Cypress tests for critical user flows
• Login → Create job → Run backup → Restore → Verify
• Run in CI pipeline

🛠 Database Management & Playground

Direct SQL Execution

• Connect directly to configured database sources
• Execute custom SQL queries from the web UI
• Query result visualization

Query Library

• Pre-built templates for common tasks (user management, table maintenance)
• Quick-action buttons in the UI

🎨 Nice-to-Have

Internationalization (i18n)

• Multi-language UI support
• Community-contributed translations

Mobile Responsive UI

• Optimized layouts for tablet and mobile devices
• Status monitoring on the go

Backup Size Limits & Alerts

• Warning when backups are unexpectedly large or small
• Configurable thresholds per job

Dark Mode Refinement

• Systematic review of all components for dark mode consistency
• High-contrast accessibility mode

✅ Completed

For a full list of completed features, see the Changelog.

v1.0.0

• ✅ Automatic database migrations (Prisma migrate on startup)
• ✅ Startup recovery (stale execution detection, temp file cleanup, queue re-init)
• ✅ Partial failure handling for multi-DB backups
• ✅ Configurable rate limiting (per-category, adjustable via Settings UI)
• ✅ Quick Setup Wizard (guided first-run experience)
• ✅ Self-service profile editing
• ✅ Backup integrity checks (SHA-256 checksums, scheduled verification)
• ✅ Disaster recovery documentation (Recovery Kit)
• ✅ Upgrade guide for v1.0.0 (config backup/restore)
• ✅ Audit log pagination with database indices
• ✅ Stress testing scripts for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MSSQL

v0.9.5 – v0.9.9

• ✅ Interactive dashboard with charts and analytics (v0.9.5)
• ✅ SHA-256 checksum verification with integrity check system (v0.9.5)
• ✅ Storage usage analytics and per-destination breakdown (v0.9.5)
• ✅ Smart type filters for sources, destinations, and notifications (v0.9.5)
• ✅ Rsync, Google Drive, Dropbox & OneDrive storage adapters (v0.9.6)
• ✅ Notification system overhaul with event-based routing (v0.9.6)
• ✅ API keys with webhook triggers (v0.9.7)
• ✅ Graceful shutdown with backup-safe SIGTERM handling (v0.9.7)
• ✅ Robust health check endpoint (v0.9.7)
• ✅ Notification adapters: Slack, Teams, Gotify, ntfy, Telegram, Twilio SMS, Generic Webhook (v0.9.8)
• ✅ Storage alerts and notification logs (v0.9.9)

Earlier Versions

• ✅ Multi-database support (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, MSSQL, Redis)
• ✅ AES-256-GCM backup encryption with Vault
• ✅ GZIP and Brotli compression
• ✅ S3, SFTP, Local, WebDAV, SMB, FTP/FTPS storage adapters
• ✅ Discord and Email notifications
• ✅ Cron-based scheduling with GVS retention
• ✅ RBAC permission system
• ✅ SSO/OIDC authentication (Authentik, PocketID, Generic)
• ✅ TOTP and Passkey 2FA
• ✅ Live backup progress monitoring
• ✅ System configuration backup & restore
• ✅ Audit logging
• ✅ Centralized logging system with custom error classes
• ✅ wget/curl download links & token-based public downloads
• ✅ Redis database support with restore wizard
• ✅ Type-safe adapter configurations
• ✅ User preferences system
• ✅ PostgreSQL TAR architecture with per-DB custom format dumps
• ✅ Microsoft SQL Server support with Azure SQL Edge compatibility

💡 Feature Requests

Have an idea for a new feature? Open an issue on GitLab or GitHub.