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Flexible scheduling for your backups

Retention

Define when to rotate your backups

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Guides

Guides & how to backup your MySQL database

How to dump stored procedures / functions

Add the --routines flag to dump MySQL database stored procedures and functions.

How to Enable Binary Log for MySQL or MariaDB

Incremental MySQL/MariaDB backups using Bin Logs

How to create a Passwordless MySQL Backup

How to use MySQL configuration file to allow authentication without credentials for MySQL backups.

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Guides

Guides & how to backup your PostgreSQL database

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Guides

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Guides

Store your website backups on any cloud storage (AWS, DigitalOcean, Dropbox, Wasabi, Google, ...).

Storage backup in a nutshell

Store your website backups on any cloud storage (AWS, DigitalOcean, Dropbox, Wasabi, Google, ...).

How to preserve S3 or DigitalOcean Spaces metadata on the files/objects

For cloud storage replication/sync, how to preserve objects' metadata?

FAQ

Common questions and answers about native cloud snapshots.

AWS S3

Amazon S3 Glacier

Ultra low-cost backup storage using SimpleBackups and Amazon S3 Glacier

Azure Blob

Alibaba Cloud

Backblaze B2

CloudFlare R2

Steps to Create a Cloudflare R2 Storage Token for a Bucket

DigitalOcean Spaces

Easily leverage your DigitalOcean account into a strong backup storage.

Dropbox

Exoscale

Egnyte

How to connect Egnyte Storage for backups? Use Egnyte for file backups, database backups, and storage replication.

Filebase

Google Cloud Storage

Store your websites and databases backups on Google Cloud Storage in just a few clicks.

Google Cloud Storage (S3-compatible credentials)

Generate Access Key and Secret Key for Google Cloud Storage.

Google Drive

Hetzner Storage Box

How to connect Hetzner Storage Box via SFTP to SimpleBackups and use it for backup storage and cloud replication.

IDrive e2

MinIO

NAS or local volume

How to store your backups locally, on a block storage, or on a NAS using SimpleBackups.

Storadera

SimpleStorage

Our built-in storage solution

UpCloud

Wasabi

SimpleBackups IP addresses (firewall)

In order for SimpleBackups to schedule your backups, you need to make sure its IP addresses are well whitelisted if you have a firewall.

Automatically provision servers

Automatically connect SimpleBackups to newly provisioned servers on AWS EC2, Amazon Lightsail, DigitalOcean, Laravel Forge, …

Errors & Troubleshooting

Errors & Troubleshooting

How to customize the backup storage path

Explains the different ways you can customize your backup storage path(s).

Why there are more Backup Log files on my Storage than expected?

How to download individual files when backing up all databases?

You can download individual backup files when backing up all databases.

How to decrypt your AES-encrypted backups?

Decrypt backups step by step using your RSA private key and AES

How to generate an RSA PEM (asymmetric) key pair?

Step to generate an RSA PEM (asymmetric) key pair for use with SimpleBackups Encryption

Backup encryption FAQs

Common questions regarding the backup encryption feature and encryption keys.

Backups failing for MySQL server versions (5.7.41 and 8.0.32)

Backups breaking for MySQL server versions (5.7.41 and 8.0.32)