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Back up your Supabase project outside Supabase

ReviveDB is a managed Supabase backup service for the PostgreSQL database and Auth, Storage files, Edge Functions and supported project configuration. Each recovery point is stored off-platform, and every database backup is restore-tested.

Authorize the project with Supabase OAuth

Before each backup, ReviveDB uses your Supabase OAuth authorization to create a Postgres login. Supabase classifies creating and removing the login as Database write access. The login used for the backup is separate and read-only, and the production password is never read, reset or stored.

Read the implementation notes
Created per run
The automatic role gets a random credential, a one-hour password expiry and a five-connection limit. Cleanup requests removal when the job finishes, including after a failed run. The expiry blocks later password access if cleanup fails.
Complete read access
The temporary role used by pg_dump can read all database tables and bypass row-level security so Auth and protected application data are included. It cannot write, create databases or roles, replicate, or act as superuser. This read-only limit applies to the backup login; the OAuth grant includes Database write permission to manage that login.
Verified before setup
Onboarding checks every table and runs a schema-only dump before saving the project. A project is not marked ready until the OAuth-managed database path passes.

One recovery point for the whole project

A database backup alone leaves out Auth settings, Storage files, Edge Functions and project configuration. ReviveDB captures all of it together.

Database and Auth
Schemas, rows, identities, table grants, RLS policies, functions and triggers, restored and compared against a capture-time inventory.
Storage and Edge Functions
Storage object bytes, bucket settings and Edge Function bundles, stored off-platform and verified with SHA-256.
Configuration and secrets
Supported project configuration in one manifest. Secret names are inventoried and values are never copied, so manual work becomes a checklist.

Compare the available recovery options

Supabase backups are useful for database rollback. General tools support more platforms. ReviveDB covers the Supabase components listed below.

ComponentSupabase database backupGeneral backup platformReviveDB
PostgreSQL databaseIncludedUsually includedRestored and compared
Auth users and identitiesDatabase stateDepends on dump scopeProvider-specific restore
Storage object bytesNot in database backupsSeparate job or add-onIncluded and hash-verified
Edge FunctionsSeparate from database backupSeparate job or add-onBundles captured and verified
Project configurationSeparate recovery workUsually exported separatelySupported settings in one manifest
Secret valuesManualDepends on setupChecklist generated; values never copied
Recovery resultDatabase restoreArtifacts or separate jobsOne recovery report

Supabase documents that its database backups exclude Storage object bytes and that restoring to a new project requires separate work for several platform components. See the official database backup documentation and new-project restore documentation.

Test the restore, not only the upload

ReviveDB restores the database, checks Storage files and Edge Function bundles, and records any configuration or secrets that still need manual work.

See how verification works
  1. 1

    Back up each project component

    Database dump, Storage object bytes, Edge Function bundles and supported project configuration in one pass.

  2. 2

    Check the database, Storage files and Edge Function bundles

    Restore into isolated PostgreSQL, compare inventories, hash-check objects and bundles.

  3. 3

    Recover in the right order

    Safety backup first, then database and Auth, then Storage, Edge Functions and supported project configuration.

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Create your first checked recovery point

One Supabase project, up to 1 GB, no card required.