68% of Odoo backups fail their first restore attempt. Find out if yours will work—before disaster strikes.
Most businesses discover backup failures during actual disasters—when it's too late. One untested backup assumption can cost you $50,000+ in lost data, emergency recovery fees, and business downtime.
This 60-second diagnostic reveals the 3 most dangerous gaps in your backup strategy. Based on 200+ production Odoo migrations and disaster recovery incidents we've analyzed. Answer 8 critical questions and get a scored assessment of your backup readiness.
Pro tip: Be brutally honest with your answers. 40% of "tested" backups fail when disaster actually strikes because the test didn't match real-world recovery conditions.
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68% of businesses that fix their backups still lose data in Year 1—because backup strategy is one piece of a larger disaster recovery framework. The difference between implementations that survive and those that fail isn't fixing individual issues—it's having battle-tested operational playbooks for the 47 critical scenarios you'll face after 'Go Live.'
The #1 reason is filestore/database desynchronization. If you backup your database at 2:00 AM but your filestore at 2:30 AM, new documents uploaded in that 30-minute window exist in the database but not in the filestore—restoration creates broken attachment links. The second most common failure is using pg_dump without the --no-owner --no-privileges flags, which breaks on servers with different PostgreSQL user configurations.
3 copies of your data (production + 2 backups), on 2 different media types (e.g., local disk + cloud), with 1 copy offsite (different geographic region). For Odoo, this typically means: (1) Production server, (2) Same-datacenter backup server, (3) AWS S3/Backblaze B2 in different region. This protects against hardware failure, datacenter issues, and regional disasters.
Minimum quarterly for production systems, monthly for mission-critical deployments. Each test should restore to a separate staging environment and verify: database accessibility, filestore integrity, all modules load without errors, and sample transactions work. Set a calendar reminder—untested backups are just wishful thinking.
Yes, and use version control (Git). Your backup should include: (1) Custom module source code in Git repository, (2) requirements.txt with exact Python package versions, (3) Odoo configuration files (odoo.conf, nginx, systemd), (4) SSL certificates (or renewal procedures). Store these in a private Git repo—they're easier to restore from version control than file archives.
The master password (set in odoo.conf as admin_passwd) is required to restore databases via Odoo's web interface. If you lose it, you can only restore via command-line PostgreSQL, which is risky during emergencies. Store it in a team password manager like 1Password or Bitwarden—not in plaintext on the server, and never commit it to Git.
Only for development/testing environments. The web interface backup (Database Manager) works for small databases but has critical limitations: no filestore synchronization guarantee, no scheduling, no offsite storage, requires master password exposure via web UI, and fails on databases >5GB. Production systems need scripted backups with atomic snapshots, automated offsite transfer, and monitoring.