How are you backing up your DaVinci Resolve Project Server databases?
Hey everyone,
I’m Daniel from DBSONICLabs.com . We run DaVinci Resolve Studio in a real post-production environment and use a Resolve Project Server with shared PostgreSQL project libraries.
One thing that always felt surprisingly fragile to us was the backup workflow for Resolve Project Server databases. Manual exports are fine for occasional use, but in a studio setup with multiple users, multiple libraries and daily project changes, I wanted something more reliable and less dependent on someone remembering to do it.
So we built a small and native macOS tool for exactly this workflow.
It can schedule automatic backups, work with multiple Resolve Project Server libraries, write backups to a selected target location, show backup history and give a clearer overview of when things were last backed up or changed.
The tool is already online, but I’m not posting this as a “please buy my software” thing. I’m genuinely interested in how other editors, colorists and post houses handle this today and wether such an app could be useful for them/you.
A few questions:
- Are you using Resolve Project Server / PostgreSQL libraries?
- Do you currently back them up manually, via scripts, NAS snapshots, pg_dump, cloud sync, or something else?
- What would make a backup tool trustworthy enough for your workflow?
- Would a simple GUI around scheduled Project Server backups be useful for your setup, or do you prefer script-based solutions?
Full disclosure: we developed a commercial tool in this area because we needed it ourselves. I’m mainly looking for real-world input and feedback from other Resolve users and studios.
Curious how you are solving this.
Greets from germany and happy backing-up :-) , Daniel