BackupSheep automates backups of your databases, websites, cloud servers and SaaS apps to 26 storage destinations you control. Schedule it, forget it, restore with one click.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bilal414/backupsheep/main/install.sh | sudo bash
Works on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04+ or Debian 12+ server. Installs Docker, builds the stack and prints your onboarding URL. Other deploy options →
Point BackupSheep at your infrastructure, pick a schedule, and every backup lands where you want it — verified, logged, and restorable.
FTP, FTPS, SFTP and SSH sources with fine-grained control.
Native dumps for the big three engines.
Provider-native snapshots & volumes.
Your hosted tools, covered too.
Backups go straight to storage you own — object storage, drives, or plain disk. Push every backup to several destinations at once.
No agents on your servers, no per-backup pricing, no vendor lock-in. Your data never touches a third party.
One command on Ubuntu or Debian sets up the full Docker Compose stack — web console, workers, scheduler, PostgreSQL and RabbitMQ.
curl -fsSL …/install.sh | sudo bashAdd servers, databases and cloud accounts, then attach any of the 26 storage destinations. Credentials are encrypted at rest.
Daily, weekly, monthly or cron schedules with keep-last retention. Get notified by email, Slack or Telegram — restore with one click when it matters.
Backups are your last line of defense. BackupSheep makes sure they survive — and that a bad run never silently becomes your only copy.
Apply governance or compliance retention to every new archive on Amazon S3. Even an attacker with your BackupSheep credentials can't delete locked backups before retention expires — deferred deletions are retried automatically afterwards.
Designate a protected copy that a backup schedule must successfully validate before it starts. No validation, no run — so a broken air-gap never gives you false confidence.
Every transfer's exit status is verified — a single failed file fails the run so it retries instead of archiving a gap. Disk-space preflight stops doomed dumps before they start.
Credentials are encrypted at rest, passed via temp credential files and environment instead of process arguments, and redacted from all run logs. Cold-storage lifecycle tiering keeps costs predictable.
Everything the console does is also available over the REST API — automate BackupSheep itself.
One-command installer for any Ubuntu/Debian VM, one-click deploys for platforms, or plain Docker Compose. Put it behind HTTPS and you're done.
# one-command install (Ubuntu 22.04+ / Debian 12+) curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bilal414/backupsheep/main/install.sh | sudo bash # or with your own domain curl -fsSL …/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --domain backups.example.com ✓ installs Docker + Compose ✓ generates app/db/onboarding secrets ✓ builds the stack & waits for health check ✓ prints your onboarding URL
Yes. BackupSheep is open source under the GNU GPLv3. It was a paid SaaS from 2017–2023 with 6,500+ users; the codebase was rewritten and open-sourced with all billing machinery removed. You pay only for your own server and storage.
On storage you own — any of the 26 supported destinations (S3, B2, R2, Azure Blob, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more) or plain disk on the BackupSheep server. Your data never passes through a third party.
After the first full mirror, only new and changed files cross the network (deletions propagate too). Every backup is still a complete, standalone zip, so restores never depend on a chain. Prefer classic full backups? That's a per-node setting.
Yes — enable S3 Object Lock (governance or compliance mode) and archives can't be deleted until retention expires. You can also require a schedule to validate a protected air-gapped copy before it runs.
Pick any historical backup and click restore. Websites are pushed back via reverse mirror (optionally exact, with --delete); database dumps are imported with the native client, recreating missing databases. Every restore is a tracked run with live status and logs.
A fresh Ubuntu 22.04+ or Debian 12+ server and the one-command installer (it installs Docker for you). Render, Heroku and other cloud VM guides are in the repo's docs/.
Install BackupSheep today, schedule your first backup in five minutes, and restore with one click when it counts.