Show HN: Restoredrill – proves your Postgres backups restore

Post by ahmadpiran » Fri, Aug 28, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC

lbrito wrote: post #10

This is a great idea and something I've faced and had to implement manually in the past. The most common scenario for me was: I implement backup, done by a daily cron calling pg_dump. It worked and I moved on, until one day I needed to restore and the backups did not work. Typically at some point the VM failed to run the commands to clear temporary backup files, the disk would fill up and the new backups would be tru…

Post by lhadhazy » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:51 AM UTC

ahmadpiran wrote: post #7

sebmellen wrote: post #5

> There are other tools in this space. Worth naming plainly instead of pretending they don't exist. Why do LLMs like this kind of writing? Why did you need to “plainly” name the competition as opposed to “flamboyantly” naming them? This is a cool idea but the README is absurdly not-to-the-point.

Fair, you're right. Thanks for the point. I used ai for a chunk of the build and writing. However, the actual work behind it wasn't AI-generated. I spent a few weeks interviewing people in r/devops and some compliance subs about how they actually test backup restores, and the report schema especially came out directly out of those conversations. You are also right about the REAME. I'll tighten it up right now, and en…