Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore
Restoredrill is a new open-source tool designed to automate and verify PostgreSQL backups by restoring them into a container and running defined checks. It aims to solve the common industry problem of 'silent' backup failures by providing machine-generated reports suitable for compliance audits.
Why it matters
Reliable data recovery is critical for business continuity and regulatory compliance, yet often neglected due to the manual effort required.
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 in their own way. The real danger isn't a bad backup. It's the drill silently not running, or silently restoring a stale file, and nobody noticing for a month.
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