Building backupctl: what it took to replace a cron job with a backup service

Building backupctl: what it took to replace a cron job with a backup service If you've ever strung pg_dump | gzip | rclone into a cron job and promised yourself you'd clean it up later — this post is for you. I've been there. And "later" usually arrives the day you add a second project to the same server. backupctl is the tool I built when I finally got tired of patching that script. It's a standalone Docker service that orchestrates scheduled backups across multiple projects — databases, files,