Back up Aiven for PostgreSQL, and prove it restores
Restore-tested backups of your Aiven for PostgreSQL, written to storage you control. Paste the service URI with a read-only role, and every backup can prove it restores.
- Spin up a throwaway database
- Restore the backup
- Check the data came back 48 of 48 tables
- Delete the throwaway database
A second copy, outside Aiven
An off-site backup is the one you can still reach when something goes wrong with the platform or the account. Norcube keeps it outside Aiven, in storage you control, and proves it restores.
Off-site, in storage you control
Norcube runs a full pg_dump on your schedule and writes the encrypted archive to Norcube-managed storage in Frankfurt or to your own S3-compatible bucket.
Proven to restore
Every backup can be restore-tested: Norcube restores it into a throwaway database and confirms your schemas, tables and rows come back.
Yours, in a standard format
Download any backup and restore it with standard Postgres tools, independent of Norcube. No proprietary format, no lock-in.
Connect Aiven, step by step
The Aiven-specific settings, from the connection string to network access. Everything after that is the standard Protect form: schedule, retention and restore testing.
Copy the service URI
In the Aiven Console, open the PostgreSQL service and copy the Service URI from Connection information on the Overview page. It carries the host, the service's own port (in the 12000s or 13000s),
defaultdband theavnadminuser.Create a read-only role
avnadminhas elevated rights. Connect once and create a role such asbackup_rowithCONNECT, schemaUSAGE,SELECTand default privileges, then use it in the URI.Paste it into Norcube with SSL required
Choose Protect a database, pick PostgreSQL, paste the URI and keep SSL mode on
require. Aiven's CA certificate is only needed forverify-caandverify-full.Allow Norcube's IP if you've narrowed access
An Aiven service is reachable from anywhere by default (
0.0.0.0/0). If you've narrowed Allowed IP addresses under Service settings, add18.196.207.101.
What Norcube adds
Restore testing
Prove each backup restores, not just that the dump ran. A Passed badge per backup and a restore-health score per database show recoverability at a glance.
Failure and missed-backup alerts
Get notified when a backup fails, a restore test can't confirm your data, or a schedule silently stops. By email, Slack or a signed webhook, on every plan.
Your own bucket
Keep backups in Norcube-managed storage in Frankfurt, or in your own Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, Wasabi or MinIO bucket.
Standard archives
Every backup is a standard pg_dump archive, gzip-compressed by default. Download it any time.
Aiven backups, answered
The questions that come up when backing up Aiven for PostgreSQL. The full guide is in the docs.
Why isn't the port 5432?
Why does a restore test mention aiven_extras?
CREATE EXTENSION aiven_extras. It's Aiven's platform tooling and can't be created on a generic engine, so a restore test notes its absence as expected and still records a clean Passed.What if my database uses PostGIS or TimescaleDB?
Your Aiven data, backed up and tested
Start on the Free plan. No credit card required. Connect Aiven, pick a schedule and let the first restore test prove it.
- Free plan
- No credit card
- Standard formats
- Restore-tested