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Review on Postico by Michael Powell

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Very useful tool, and mostly troublefree

The best part about this software is that it's free! It allows you to do all of your backups in one place instead of having multiple different apps for each database or server within our infrastructure (like we used before).

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I dislike how complicated some features can be at times - especially when trying to backup large databases with many tables/rows etc., but most things are pretty straightforward once figured out. We've been able solve so much time-consuming problems by using postico as opposed to other methods like rsync / cron jobs which were previously being done manually across several servers every day.

Pros
  • Easy interface
  • Free, open source product without any limitations.
  • Very powerful tool if properly configured & administered correctly.
  • Does not require root access unlike similar tools such Veeam Backup Exec Agent Server Edition'S SQL agent mode feature
Cons
  • Somewhat tricky user experience while starting up new instances due lack o