benbjohnson/litestream

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Litestream is a standalone disaster recovery tool for SQLite that runs as a background process and continuously streams database changes to S3-compatible object storage or local files. It communicates only through the SQLite API, enabling point-in-time recovery without code changes to existing applications.

Use cases

• continuously back up a SQLite database to S3
• restore a SQLite database after a server crash
• run a single-server app with replicated SQLite storage
• replicate SQLite changes to MinIO or other S3-compatible storage
• achieve point-in-time recovery for SQLite without code changes
• cheap offsite disaster recovery for small databases

When to choose

• you run SQLite on a single server and need no-worry backups
• you want low-cost replication using cheap object storage
• you need disaster recovery without modifying your application code

When to avoid

• you need multi-master or active-active replication across servers
• you require a full relational database server with concurrent writers
• your database is too large or write-heavy for SQLite

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