Documentation
Everything you need to run OBM
Short, honest guides — the same steps we follow ourselves. CE guides cover the free self-hosted edition; Pro guides cover the hosted platform.
Install OBM CE in five minutes
Docker Compose install of the free Community Edition: generate the two secrets, start one container, protect your first database with the onboarding wizard — plus the two Odoo gotchas that bite everyone.
Read the guide →Operate OBM CE well
Schedules, keep-rules retention, verification, downloads, backing up OBM itself, lockout recovery, reverse-proxy HTTPS, and the version-check opt-out.
Read the guide →Upgrading OBM CE
Read the changelog, snapshot ./data and .env, pull the new image — migrations run themselves on start. Plus how to verify the upgrade, how to roll back, and why production should pin a version tag instead of latest.
Read the guide →Restore a backup
The manual restore path: Odoo's own database manager for .zip archives, pg_restore for db-only dumps, and what to do when a proxy rejects large uploads.
Read the guide →Get started with OBM Pro
From signup to a protected client fleet: onboarding, schedules and retention, restores and drills, team access, share links, API tokens and metrics.
Read the guide →SSH backups for servers with the database manager off
Odoo 17+ refuses /web/database/backup when list_db = False. On the Agency plan OBM sshs in and streams a pg_dump -Fc instead: key setup, the peer-auth requirement, host-key pinning, what it means for restores, and every error message you might see.
Read the guide →Troubleshooting
Symptom, cause, fix — for the failures that actually happen: listing rejected, wrong master password, HTTP 413 on restore, timeouts, TLS trouble, verification failures, size anomalies, stuck jobs, and CE lockouts.
Read the guide →Security, in plain language
How OBM treats master passwords, where archives are stored, what is encrypted, how downloads are protected — and how to report a vulnerability.
Read the guide →Changelog
What shipped and when — Community Edition releases and Pro platform milestones, kept short and honest.
See what's new →Can't find it here?
CE is open source — the README on GitHub goes deeper than these pages, and issues are answered in the open. Wondering which edition fits? See the CE vs Pro comparison and pricing. For anything else, contact us — we answer within one business day.
Five minutes to your first verified backup
Self-host the Community Edition for free, or ask for a beta invite and let us run it.