PocketBase and Litestream - very unreliable

After most of a day I’ve given up on a pure PocketBase Litestream setup.

It’s really flaky and I experienced several instances where the restored database was subseqently overritten by PocketBase. I couldn’t ascertain why and don’t have the time to understand the problem.

Frankly, I’m disappointed by it. I think PocketBase will be my new MVP/PoC stack with Go. Its an amazing tool and offers so much out of the box.

I created <pocketshare.infra.ptco.rocks> with it in about a week. Its a file sharing app - which I felt pushed all the PocketBase buttons. It was an excellent thing to build for learning PB.

For now, I’m resorting to volume mounting the DB but running it in a container. I’ll rely on automated backups and manual intervention in case of emergency rather than automation via Litestream.

This will work great but I’m still down about not figuring out Litestream!

ref: - https://pocketbase.io - https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/3080

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#go #pocketbase