🔐 Vaultkeeper
Scheduled, encrypted database backups you actually own.
Vaultkeeper at a glance
| Price | $99, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | SimpleBackups at $29/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year |
| Type | Web app — self-hosted |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Developer Tools |
Vaultkeeper features
🗄️ Four engines
PostgreSQL (pg_dump), MySQL/MariaDB (mysqldump), MongoDB (mongodump) — and SQLite via the online backup API, safe on live WAL databases with nothing installed.
⏰ Real scheduling
Cron expressions with presets, per-job timezone, next-3-runs preview, and a per-job lock so runs never overlap.
🔐 Encryption you can restore without us
age if installed, or built-in AES-256-GCM with a documented open format and a dependency-free decrypt script — your backups are never hostage.
📦 Three destination types
Local disk, any S3-compatible bucket (AWS, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, MinIO — multipart uploads), and FTP/FTPS.
♻️ GFS-lite retention
Keep last N, plus daily-for-X-days and weekly-for-Y-weeks — pruned automatically on the destination after every successful run.
🚨 Alerts that catch silent failures
Webhook (Slack/Discord-compatible) + SMTP email on failure, with the dump tool's stderr tail included so you know why.
🧰 Restore helper
One click generates the exact download, decrypt, gunzip, psql/mysql/mongorestore command chain for any stored run.
🔒 Secrets encrypted at rest
Connection passwords, S3 keys and passphrases are AES-256-GCM encrypted in SQLite, and passwords are never passed on argv. No telemetry, no cloud.
$99 once — that's the whole pricing page
SimpleBackups charges $29/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Vaultkeeper is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Vaultkeeper inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Vaultkeeper guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/vaultkeeper-mvp, always. The $99 buys the packaged installer and funds development. One month of the competition, forever.
What happens to my backups if Vaultkeeper disappears?
They still open. The VK1 encryption format is documented in the README (AES-256-GCM, scrypt key derivation) and the repo ships a zero-dependency decrypt script — plus you can use age instead. Your backups outlive the software by design.
Do I need database tools installed?
For Postgres/MySQL/Mongo, yes — Vaultkeeper shells out to the official dump tools, and a tool-check panel shows what's found on PATH with install hints. SQLite needs nothing installed. The Docker image bundles all of them.