django-dbbackup VS tortoise-orm

And finally backups, this part is really important. When I was a beginner, I used to make silly mistakes which would lead me having to reset the entire database and rebuild. With backups you can simply restore back to a working point in time whenever something goes wrong. The django-dbbackup package can do this for you, however, you may run into a few issues which can be fixed. Or you could simply use PostgreSQL database dumps.

I spent the entire day today trying to implement a backup system for my personal Django/Wagtail project using django-dbbackup, however, I ended up making zero progress.

I have a Django/Wagtail project and I'm trying to set up django-dbbackup to backup both my database as well as my media files.

I've just stumbled upon the django-dbbackup package, seems perfect as it backs up the database and media to the cloud. As backups are linked to the deployment using hostnames, it even seamlessly handles restores. I might give that a go using Ofelia to run the backup management command at regular intervals.

To do this, we can use the Tortoise-ORM. Begin by installing the package:

If I was answering this question but for python, I'd recommend something like prefect, boto3, or tortoise-orm -- not extremely complex and with a pretty comprehensible featureset.

If you're just starting with relational databases i suggest you use an ORM an object relational mapper. Which allows you to use simple python to make all database interactions. And i recommend using tortoise ORM.

Does anybody have any experience with that? Can I use Django in my asyncio application without *actually using Django? Or should sth like Tortoise ORM be preferred?

Tortoise ORM looks a lot like the django ORM https://tortoise.github.io

Thanks, it's great to see Django adding slowly but surely in all sorts of places.

By the way, have you looked at tortoise orm, which is a fully async python ORM with very Django-like syntax? [1]

[1] https://github.com/tortoise/tortoise-orm