From download to your first backup
Real screenshots of every screen you'll see. Follow along — it takes about ten minutes.
Download and install
Get the free installer, run it, and open SQL Backup. You land on the Dashboard — this is where every backup will show up later. Click the blue New backup button.
Nothing else to install — the app brings its own database tools
Pick your database
Click the tile for the database you use — SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, Oracle, SQLite, Redis, ClickHouse or Elasticsearch. Not sure? It's whatever your website or app was built on; the person who set it up will know.
One app covers all ten — no extra licences
Connect to it
Type the server address, username and password — the same details your application uses. Click Test & list databases: the app connects and shows what it found. Tick the databases you want to protect and click Continue.
Passwords are stored in Windows' own password vault, never in a file
Choose where backups should go
A folder on this PC, an external drive, your NAS, OneDrive, Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze, Cloudflare R2, MinIO, SFTP or FTP — click one and fill in its details. You can add a second place too, so every backup is kept twice.
Best choice: somewhere that isn't the same computer as the database
Set the schedule and press Run
Switch on Daily (or Weekly / Monthly), pick a time, say how many copies to keep, and choose a password so nobody else can open your backups. Then click Save & run now. That's it — your first backup starts immediately.
Most people choose Daily at 2 AM and keep the last 7 copies
Relax — it runs by itself
From now on backups run on schedule, even when the window is closed (the app sits quietly in the system tray). The Dashboard shows every run: green means success, red means something needs a look — and you can get an email the moment a backup fails.
Set it once and forget it
