Use cases · What it does on your server
Use cases
What NeverWiped does on four common Linux servers: a VPS running Docker, a WordPress site, an app with PostgreSQL, an app built with an AI assistant.
Four common Linux servers, and what NeverWiped does on each: what the agent finds on its own, what you should check before you accept the plan, how you bring things back, and what it does not cover there. Every point links to the page of the docs that explains it.
The four pages
- A VPS running Docker: Compose projects, named volumes, databases in containers.
- A WordPress site: the site’s files, its MySQL or MariaDB database, the web server configuration.
- An app with PostgreSQL: your code, its configuration and a consistent dump of every database.
- An app built with an AI assistant: when you are not sure what is on the server, and your assistant does the install.
The same on every server
- One command, then a plan you read. The install finds your sites, databases and Docker volumes, measures them, and shows the plan before anything is sent (install, size and exclusions).
- Encrypted on your server. restic encrypts everything before it leaves, with a key that stays on the server. You keep a recovery key (encryption).
- Stored in France, append-only. Day to day your server can add backups but not delete them (append-only).
- Databases as dumps, not raw files. PostgreSQL with
pg_dumpall, MySQL and MariaDB withmysqldump --single-transaction, on the server or in a container (a database). - Restores go into a separate folder first. Overwriting live files needs your explicit OK (restore).
- Emails when something goes wrong: a failed backup, no backup for too long, storage almost full (alerts).
What NeverWiped does not cover
- A server without root access, such as shared web hosting with no SSH: the agent runs as root on your server (the agent).
- A machine that is not Linux (amd64 or arm64).
- A database on another machine, such as a database service from your cloud provider: the agent exports the databases on the server itself or in its Docker containers, nothing else.
- The whole disk as one image. NeverWiped brings back files, folders, databases and Docker volumes. On a new server you install the base software first (a whole server).
- A second copy somewhere else. Your backups are stored once, on one storage server (known limits).
If your server is not one of the four, the comparison pages set NeverWiped next to the other usual ways to back up a Linux server.
Last reviewed: 6 November 2026.