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Tunnex
Encrypted Postgres & Mongo backups, from your desktop.
Tunnex is a desktop app for backing up and restoring self-hosted Postgres and MongoDB databases. One click, AES-256-GCM encryption, OS-keychain key storage, full audit log. Free and open source. No cloud. Your backups stay on your machine.
Every developer who runs a database on a VPS does the same four things: SSH in, run pg_dump, copy the file, hope nothing goes wrong.
It works. But: your password is now in shell history. The dump sits in plaintext. The file is called backup-final-2.sql. You have ten of them. Nothing is encrypted. Nobody on your team knows you did it.
One day a teammate restored the wrong dump into production. The file was called mongo.dump. We had six files called mongo.dump. No log. No warning. No undo.
We looked for a tool that would have prevented this. Nothing existed for small teams running their own databases on their own servers. So we built Tunnex.
One click to back up. AES-256-GCM encryption on the fly — no plaintext file ever touches disk. Key lives in your OS keychain. Every action is logged. You can preview a MongoDB backup without restoring it. Restore asks you to confirm the target database name by typing it.
Free, open source (MIT). No cloud. Your backups stay on your machine.
Try it on a database that doesn't matter. Break it. Tell us what's wrong.
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About Tunnex on Product Hunt
“Encrypted Postgres & Mongo backups, from your desktop.”
Tunnex was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #33 on the daily leaderboard. Tunnex is a desktop app for backing up and restoring self-hosted Postgres and MongoDB databases. One click, AES-256-GCM encryption, OS-keychain key storage, full audit log. Free and open source. No cloud. Your backups stay on your machine.
Tunnex was featured in Open Source (68.5k followers), Developer Tools (514.1k followers) and Database (2.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 86.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Tunnex?
Tunnex was hunted by Md Ashif. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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