How Accred+ backs up its entire Supabase stack without a DevOps team

Accred+ gives festival organisers, department leads, suppliers and operations teams one shared crew list they can rely on, replacing fragmented spreadsheets, email chains and last-minute check-ins. It is built on a process every event already needs, accrediting crew, and it turns that into a trusted single source of truth for crew data. With a small team focused on features, stability and performance, backups were one more thing that could not be allowed to slip.

Protecting client data without adding a DevOps job

Accred+ was just launching a web application that handles client data, and the team did not have a DevOps person. The question was simple: if something went wrong, could they get the data back?

We want to be able to ensure that our data is backed up in case something happens… it's the right thing to do for our clients' data, and therefore our reputation.

Building backups in-house was a risk they didn't want to take

Accred+ runs on Supabase, so they needed something external to hold the backups. They could have written the software themselves, but that would have meant maintaining another system outside their area of expertise while they were focused on shipping the product.

We could have written the software internally to do that, but then that's another thing to have to maintain… that isn't really our area of expertise to have to maintain is a risk that we didn't want to take.

The other routes were to hand-roll something or move the whole stack to Cloudflare, which did not match their infrastructure. There were not many tools out there, and SimpleBackups was the one that could slot in easily.

One tool across the whole stack

Today Accred+ has 16 backups configured with SimpleBackups, all of them working, all stored in Google. They cover the parts of the stack that matter most:

• The Supabase database
• Storage buckets
• Supabase config
• GitHub, for the application code

That was reasonably easy to configure.

Support that notices when something is missed

Support has been a big part of why the setup feels safe. When a backup has not run, the SimpleBackups team has spotted it and got in touch directly.

Any support that we've required to date has been super responsive, and also in some cases it's proactive as well, noticing that something hadn't backed up and then reaching out directly to us.

For a small team, that matters. As Thad put it, “I miss things all the time,” so having someone else watching the backups is a comfort.

Growing from pilot with confidence

Accred+ is in its pilot stage with a small number of clients, so the team has not yet fully rehearsed its restore strategy. Thad expects the SimpleBackups team would help if a restore were ever needed, based on how responsive they have been so far.

Use these guys… they've worked for us so far in our very early venture.