7 months ago
We’ve heard you all (and ourselves) loud and clear and are very excited to improve backups this quarter!
The project is in the works with some fixes have already been shipped out.
Among other things, we’re adding clarity around the UI / UX to make the experience absolutely smooth and cut any confusion in this very critical feature.
If you have any feedback on this as we’re working on it, please feel free to share
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Status changed to Planned chandrika • 7 months ago
7 months ago
Do you have more details about how they are being improved?
We'd love the ability to natively backup common databases (e.g. MongoDB which we're using) and export them offsite.
7 months ago
There should be a possibility to schedule the backup for the whole environment or at least the option to have the same backup cycle for different services in the same Environment.
6 months ago
I would appreciate clarity on the availability of the backup feature. There is no documentation indicating that Backups are restricted to the Pro tier outside the user interface itself.
I did some research before setting up my Railway account, and the only information I found about backup pricing was on the backup docs page, which says "You are only billed for the incremental size of the backup at a rate per GB / minutely, and invoiced monthly" with no mention of a plan-level restriction. The Pricing Reference Page doesn't mention backups at all. There's a Volume Storage price that does not differentiate by Subscription type.
I expected backups to be available on the hobby tier. But then when I hit the backup tab for one of my serivices, it said "Backups are only available for customers on the Pro plan" and links to the plans page. But neither the Plans Page nor the pricing page list Backups as a feature with availability that differs across plans.
5 months ago
It would be really great to be able to take the backups offsite as storing the backups on the same infra is usually a bad decision. It seems right now there is no convenient way of doing this (guessing on the comments above, as I am on Hobby so the feature is not available to me)
Poor man's option/Hobbys't option is to expose your database over the public network and then use tool of your choice to make a backup, ie pg_dump or use a custom cron-service that takes care of making a backup and send it to remote storage like this one https://railway.com/deploy/I4zGrH . This works but far from being convenient ( https://station.railway.com/questions/pg-dump-and-pg-migrate-to-a-new-deployme-62d7d60e )
It would be also great to have some minimal backup option available for the Hobby plan