A snapshot every five minutes
The continuous preset backs up your project on a 5-minute cadence. Restic deduplication keeps each snapshot tiny, tiered retention collapses the train into hourly and daily keeps, and restore picks the snapshot nearest any timestamp.
Built for a tiny RPO
5-minute cadence
Schedules run down to every five minutes on Pro — near-continuous protection without a streaming agent.
Deduplicated storage
Restic uploads only changed blocks, so a 5-minute cadence costs a fraction of repeated full snapshots.
Point-in-time restore
Pick any timestamp; Dockstash resolves the nearest snapshot at or before it and restores it in one click.
Tiered retention
Keep-last, hourly, daily, weekly and monthly keeps collapse the snapshot train automatically.
How it works
- 01
Enable the preset
One click sets the every-five-minutes cron and a tuned retention policy on your project.
- 02
Snapshots accumulate
Every five minutes the dump-and-snapshot pipeline runs; any failure alerts you immediately.
- 03
Restore to a moment
Enter a timestamp in the PITR tab, confirm the resolved snapshot, and restore.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What RPO does continuous backup give me?
With the 5-minute preset the worst-case data-loss window is five minutes plus the dump duration. Business plans can schedule down to one minute.
Doesn't a 5-minute cadence explode storage costs?
No. Restic deduplicates at the block level, so unchanged data is never re-uploaded, and tiered retention prunes the snapshot train into hourly and daily keeps.
How do I restore to a specific time?
Open the project's PITR tab and pick a timestamp. Dockstash resolves the newest snapshot at or before it and shows the exact gap before you confirm.
Shrink your backup window to minutes
Continuous backup is included in Pro. Enable the preset on any project in one click.