Manage your backups from Claude, Cursor, and VS Code
Cloudback now ships an official MCP server. Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP client and manage your backup definitions, schedules, storages, and retention policies through plain-language chat - across GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Linear. One prompt can reschedule and re-retain 300 backup definitions at once - no dashboard clicks, no throwaway scripts. Runs as a Docker image (myrtlelabs/cloudback-mcp).
Hi PH 👋 I'm Evgeniy, co-founder of Cloudback. Today I'm bringing our MCP server to Product Hunt.
🛠️ Why we built it: Cloudback already has a dashboard, a Terraform provider, and a REST Operations API. They work well for scheduled automation and IaC. But when a platform engineer wants to answer "which of my 300 repos doesn't have a backup?" or "move every nightly job to 02:00 UTC and extend retention to 180 days" - that's a throwaway script or multiple dashboard clicks. It's not only for changes - you can also just ask for the read-only picture: "how many repos backed up last night?", "which backups failed this week?" - and get the status, stats, and an overview across every account in seconds.
⚡ What the MCP server does:
- List and filter backup definitions across your accounts (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Linear - one config file, case-insensitive).
- Bulk-update schedules, storages, and retention policies in one prompt. The assistant reads your retention policy names directly and reuses them - no hardcoded day counts.
- Read and adjust account-level defaults: timezone, default schedule, default storage, default retention.
- Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, and any stdio MCP-compatible client.
🐳 Setup is three steps: create an Operations API key per account, drop them into a single appsettings.json (one entry per account: platform + account name + API key), and register the server in your MCP config. Docker pulls myrtlelabs/cloudback-mcp automatically on first run.
👥 Who it's for:
- Platform engineers managing repos across multiple platforms who want config changes without a script.
- DevOps teams already on Cloudback who want a faster path to bulk changes.
- Operators who want natural-language access to backup state for audits or incident response.
Cloudback protects 1.7k+ customers, 14k+ repositories, and 4M+ backups. Every plan starts with a free trial.
💬 Happy to answer questions
About Cloudback MCP Server on Product Hunt
“Manage your backups from Claude, Cursor, and VS Code”
Cloudback MCP Server launched on Product Hunt on June 21st, 2026 and earned 138 upvotes and 22 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Cloudback now ships an official MCP server. Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, or any MCP client and manage your backup definitions, schedules, storages, and retention policies through plain-language chat - across GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Linear. One prompt can reschedule and re-retain 300 backup definitions at once - no dashboard clicks, no throwaway scripts. Runs as a Docker image (myrtlelabs/cloudback-mcp).
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