You can already enable encryption through the web UI. Differential backups are not available yet but they are on our backlog (we do not have an estimated release date for now).

Feel free to give it a try if you have time, and don’t hesitate to open GitHub issues if you run into any bugs.

There are a few other tools. Docker Desktop has some backup-related tooling, but not through a web UI. Portainer may cover part of it too, but I’m not 100% sure.

You can also use generic file-level backup tools, since Docker volumes are basically files at the end of the day.

Portabase is more focused on backup and restore workflows. The goal is to have the full ecosystem around that: storage providers, notifications, retention policies, RBAC, agents, homogenous migration, etc.

Thanks for the feedback! Feel free to open issues for these ideas. A PR for SECRET_FILE support would be very welcome.

Thanks for adding Portabase to OpenAltFinder! I missed your message earlier, but I appreciate it.

Currently, the backup process is logical. Incremental backups are not implemented yet, as supporting them across multiple database systems (PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, etc.) would require significant development effort.

The system relies on the database’s native tools when possible, such as pg_dump for PostgreSQL or mongodump for MongoDB. Table-level backups are not currently supported, but could be introduced in the future if there is enough demand.