Multiple Database Catalogs | Database backup and restore per application on PaaS
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With almost every organizations going for cloud-first strategy, they are choosing OutSystems PaaS infrastructure over setting up and maintaining the on-premise.

With the OutSystems cloud offering, all database data (application source versions, configurations and application runtime data) is backed up and maintained for 15 days. We can always request a database restore to a given point in time. In this case, the Backup and Restore procedure is only applicable at the database level for the entire platform and, it will restore the whole data available to the point of time we are choosing.  

Since on the cloud version, we do not have multiple Database Catalogs and Schemas, which means we can not have database backup policies and maintenance plan per application out-of-box.

It is a risk for applications. The core of any application is its data. If we are developing a couple of business applications on single PaaS infrastructure then this brings the risk for all the  other applications on the platform.

  • All the applications are sharing the database 
  • One application can not rollback to different day/time because it'll affect the other application sharing the database on the environment.


Regards,

Swatantra

Hi Swatantra,

It would definitely be great if the OutSystems PaaS solution would give more "flexibility" in line with what is possible in an On-premise solution.

I voted, although I don't expect OutSystems to do anything quickly on it.

Regards,

Daniel

Hey Daniël, 

The least we can do is, proposing the features through the idea. If it takes some time but makes its way to the product roadmap that itself will be a win. I hope there will be more of these requests from clients towards OutSystems as they get aware of it. I came across a potential client for whom application-level backup is a differentiator. I am aware of a paid plugin which provides this functionality, but that adds an additional cost of AOs and another recurring license fee. A large stack of customers will be benefitted by this opportunity if it is available out-of-the-box. Thanks for upvoting.

Regards,

Swatantra

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Backend

We are 4 years laters, this still feels very relevant to me. Would anybody have an idea if anything has moved around this topic?

Nothing, if it would we would have known.