Smart Backup Manager

Cross-platform desktop app for backing up Django sites from remote servers with restic, SSH, and optional local-PC storage.

Download (recommended)

Pre-built packages are published on GitHub Releases:

Platform	File	How to run
Linux	smart-backup-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Extract, then run ./smart-backup/smart-backup
Windows	smart-backup-windows-x86_64.zip	Extract, then run smart-backup\smart-backup.exe
macOS	smart-backup-macos-arm64.zip	Extract, open Smart Backup Manager.app

Prerequisites (all platforms)

• restic must be installed separately for backup/restore:
  • Linux: sudo pacman -S restic / sudo apt install restic
  • macOS: brew install restic
  • Windows: restic releases
• rsync (optional, faster downloads on Linux/macOS): usually pre-installed
• SSH key access to your servers

Run from source

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate   # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

Build locally

pip install -r requirements.txt -r requirements-build.txt
pyinstaller packaging/smart_backup.spec --noconfirm --clean
# Output: dist/smart-backup/  (or dist/Smart Backup Manager.app on macOS)

Create a new release (maintainers)

git tag v0.8.0
git push origin v0.8.0

GitHub Actions builds Linux, Windows, and macOS packages and attaches them to the release automatically.

Supported databases

Backups use the correct dump tool per engine (auto-detected from Django settings, .env, wp-config.php, or Docker):

Engine	Dump format
SQLite	.sqlite3 (Django default)
PostgreSQL	.sql via pg_dump
MySQL / MariaDB	.sql via mysqldump
MongoDB	directory archived as .tar.gz
Redis	.rdb snapshot

Credentials are read from the server at backup time (not stored locally).

Features

• SSH server management and site scanning
• Selective backup: code, media, database (separate restic snapshots)
• Local PC or remote server restic repositories
• Scheduled backups, retention, restore with confirmations
• Archive browser and dashboard

Data is stored under ~/.smart_backup/ (database, staging, credentials).