Founder of BackupDrill— Supabase backups with real restore drills. Building in public about SaaS, indie hacking.

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I shipped a Supabase app, set up backups, felt safe — then realized I had never actually restored one. When I finally tried, I learned the hard way that a database restore doesn't bring back Storage files (only the metadata pointing at them), and that nothing in my setup would have ever told me. BackupDrill is what I built to fix that: - Postgres + Storage files in one snapshot, written to your own S3/R2/B2 bucket. Your keys, your data — bytes stream through the workers and never touch our disks.- Restore drills on a schedule: latest snapshot → throwaway Postgres → verify table counts, populated tables, Storage checksums → destroy the sandbox → graded report in your inbox. A backup is only real after it has been restored.- MIT open-source engine (github.com/backupdrill/cli) — audit it, or run it yourself in CI for free. Free plan: 1 project, weekly backups, and one restore drill on your first backup so you see the proof before paying. Paid from $19/month — a fifth of Supabase PITR, which still skips Storage files. Built solo, launched seventeen days after the first commit. Ask me anything about pg_dump quirks, Supabase egress economics, or restoring into throwaway containers.