downpipes documentation
downpipes is a self-hosted, no-custody backup and recovery engine that runs entirely inside your own Cloudflare account. The vendor never holds your data. It never holds your keys or a Cloudflare token. You back up your Cloudflare data and prove you can restore it, then recover it yourself, even offline.
What downpipes does
It backs up your Cloudflare data sources (Workers KV, R2, D1 and Secrets Store), your Worker scripts, and your Stream and Images, along with your Cloudflare configuration. It then reads each backup back and verifies it, so a clean result means a recoverable backup rather than an assumed one.
Where to go next
How downpipes works
A short tour of how a backup is taken, sealed and proven recoverable, and how you recover your data.
Source on GitHub
The engine, the console and the open-source offline reader.
Who it is for
The teams and roles downpipes serves, mapped onto the cumulative four-role engine model, with a start-here-for-your-role pointer so each reader can take the shortest path to the docs that matter to them.
Why back up Cloudflare
The coverage-boundary case for backing up Cloudflare data and configuration: why platform durability is not a backup, what downpipes captures today, and the explicit list of what it does not.
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