Minu Backup
Managed backup and recovery for your servers, clusters and databases
One lightweight agent, three engines, immutable storage in two sites and a console your whole team can use.
Architecture
The agent runs in your environment and polls the orchestrator over mutual TLS. Jobs are signed, checked against your local allowlist and executed by the matching engine. Data goes to your own encrypted Kopia repository on S3 storage with Object Lock, and can be copied to a second site.
Features
Full and incremental
Run a one-time full backup or a schedule of incrementals with periodic fulls.
Warm and cold tiers
Keep recent restore points warm for fast recovery and archive the rest to cold storage.
Second-site copy
Replicate restore points to site 2 per policy, on by default.
Retention you control
Set retention per policy; Object Lock keeps data immutable until it expires.
Windows VSS
Consistent snapshots of open files on Windows through Volume Shadow Copy.
Deduplication
Kopia only stores changed blocks, even on full backups.
Allowlisted paths
You decide which paths, namespaces and stanzas can be backed up or restored to.
Audit log
Every login, restore request and policy change is recorded in an append-only log.
Supported engines
| Engine | Workload | Backup | Restore |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kopia | Linux, Windows, file systems | Paths in allowed_sources; full re-hashes all files | Snapshot to an allowed restore target |
| Velero | Kubernetes namespaces | Namespaces with TTL, agent runs as a pod | By backup name |
| pgBackRest | PostgreSQL | Full or incremental by stanza | Guided by a DBA runbook (database must be stopped) |
- Available
Servers & files
Kopia
Linux and Windows file backups with deduplication and Windows VSS snapshots.
Learn more - Available
Kubernetes
Velero
Back up namespaces and their resources from inside your own cluster.
Learn more - Available
PostgreSQL
pgBackRest
Full and incremental database backups by stanza.
Learn more - Coming soon
Oracle Database
RMAN
Native Oracle backups through RMAN.
Learn more - Coming soon
Microsoft SQL Server
MSSQL
Native SQL Server database backups.
Learn more - Coming soon
Veeam repository
Veeam
Use Minu immutable storage as a Veeam target.
Learn more
Tested against real attack scenarios
Results from the agent's lab test suite with Kopia 0.23.1.
| Scenario | Result |
|---|---|
| Full backup | Snapshot created; size and file count reported |
| Incremental backup | Passed |
| Restore to an allowed location | Identical to the source (diff -r) |
| Back up /etc/shadow | Rejected by allowlist |
| Restore into /etc/cron.d | Rejected by allowlist |
| Job for another tenant | Rejected |
| Job for a disabled engine | Rejected |
| Job signed with a forged key | Dropped |
On the roadmap
- One-time enrollment tokens with automatic certificate renewal
- Native Windows service
- Progress reporting for long jobs
- Signed, centrally managed agent updates
- Oracle RMAN and Microsoft SQL Server engines
Ready to protect your data?
Our team will set up your tenant, issue agent certificates and help with your first backup policy.