Hetzner Cloud Backup Automation

Automated backups
for Hetzner Cloud.

Snapshot your servers, back up volumes, and export database backups on a schedule. Define your retention policy, store backups where you want, and get notified when something goes wrong.

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Free plan available · No credit card required

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Dashboard

Infrastructure overview

Key metrics and statistics for your infrastructure management.

Backup Jobs

Success (24h)

Failed (24h)

Snapshots Stored

Recent snapshots

The 5 most recently created snapshots.

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Description	Server	Project	Status	Size	Created
web-prod-daily-001 ID: 48291034	web-prod-01	my-project	available	12.4 GB	May 22, 2026
db-main-daily-001 ID: 48291021	db-main-01	my-project	available	8.1 GB	May 22, 2026
worker-daily-001 ID: 48291009	worker-02	my-project	available	5.3 GB	May 22, 2026

Features

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Built specifically for Hetzner Cloud. No bloat, no complexity — just reliable automated backups.

Multiple Hetzner accounts

Connect as many Hetzner projects as you need. Manage backups across all your accounts from a single dashboard.

Safe by design

HetGuard only touches snapshots and backups it created. Your existing Hetzner snapshots are never modified or deleted.

Encrypted backups

Optionally encrypt volume and database backups with AES-256-CBC before they leave your server. Your encryption key never touches our infrastructure.

Flexible schedules

Run backups hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. Choose a preset or fine-tune the time and day to fit your workflow.

Set up a schedule

Smart retention policies

Keep the last N daily, weekly, and monthly snapshots automatically. Old snapshots are pruned so you stay within your Hetzner limits.

How retention works

Failure notifications

Get alerted via email, Slack, or Discord the moment a backup fails. Know before your customers do.

Configure alerts

Database backups

Schedule automated database exports — hourly, every 6 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly — and stream them directly to your storage provider. No disk usage on your backup source server.

Set up database backups

Volume backups

Back up any directory on your server via SSH. Compressed archives are streamed directly to S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, or Hetzner Object Storage.

Set up volume backups

Snapshot history

Browse every snapshot ever taken — what server it covers, how large it is, and when it was created. Delete them directly from the UI.

Explore snapshots

No S3 account needed.

Pro and Agency plans include managed storage — ready to go the moment you sign up.

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Backup Automation

Set it once.
Never think about it again.

Define your schedule, set your retention policy, and walk away. HetGuard runs your backups on time, prunes old ones automatically, and keeps a full history of every run.

Hourly, daily, weekly, or custom cron schedules

Retention policies automatically prune old snapshots

Full run history with duration, size, and error logs

Start automating backups

Backup Schedules

4 active

web-prod-01 · Daily snapshot

Every day at 02:00 UTC · Keep last 7

✓ Ran 3h ago

pg-main · Database dump

Every 6 hours · Keep last 14

● Running

uploads · Volume backup

Every day at 03:00 UTC · Keep last 30

✓ Ran 1h ago

cron

0 2 * * *

or use a preset ↗

Storage

Your storage.
Or ours.

Connect your own S3-compatible bucket or use HetGuard's fully managed storage. No vendor lock-in — switch providers any time, or use different storage for different jobs.

AWS S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Hetzner Object Storage

Optional AES-256 client-side encryption before upload

Pro and Agency plans include managed storage — zero config

See storage options

Storage Providers

HetGuard Managed

Backblaze B2 · provisioned automatically

Included

AWS S3

Any region · your own bucket

BYOS

Backblaze B2

S3-compatible · affordable egress

BYOS

HOS

Hetzner Object Storage

Keep data in Hetzner's network

BYOS

How it works

Set up in minutes.

No bloat, no complexity. Connect your API key and your first backup runs automatically.

Step 01

Connect your Hetzner account

Paste in a read/write Hetzner Cloud API token. HetGuard connects to your project instantly and loads your servers.

Step 02

Create a backup job

Choose a job type — server snapshot, volume backup, or database dump. Pick a schedule, set your retention policy, and you're done.

Step 03

Relax — we handle the rest

Backups run on schedule and old ones are pruned automatically. If anything fails, you get a notification right away.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing.

Start free and scale as you grow. No per-server fees — just one flat rate per plan.

Free

forever free

1 backup schedule
Server snapshots only
Daily · 7-day retention

Get started free

Starter

$9/mo

billed monthly

5 backup schedules
Snapshots, volumes & DBs
S3, Wasabi & Backblaze
AES-256 encrypted backups
All retention policies
Email, Slack & Discord

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Automated backupsfor Hetzner Cloud.

Everything you need.Nothing you don't.

Set it once.Never think about it again.

Your storage.Or ours.

Set up in minutes.

Simple, honest pricing.

Start protecting your servers today.

Automated backups
for Hetzner Cloud.

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Set it once.
Never think about it again.

Your storage.
Or ours.