Getting Started
- Architecture
  - Backup Lifecycle & data flow
  - Backup workers
  - Our infrastructure
- Features
  - Scheduling
  - Retention
  - Notifications
  - Incremental Backups
  - Backup Automation
  - Backup Webhook
  - Backup Trigger URL
  - Teams, Projects & users
  - Backup storage
- Security & Privacy
  - Backup Encryption
  - How your data is processed
  - Uninstalling
  - How can I restrict/limit the permissions provided to SimpleBackups?
  - Data Processing Agreement
- Account & Billing
  - Trial plan
  - Free plan
  - Subscriptions
  - How to cancel my account?
  - Manage invoices and payment receipts
  - My payment failed, what should I do?
  - How to redeem a coupon?
Database Backup
- MySQL Backup
  - Restore a MySQL backup
  - Guides
  - How to dump stored procedures / functions
  - How to Enable Binary Log for MySQL or MariaDB
  - How to create a Passwordless MySQL Backup
  - FAQ
- PostgreSQL Backup
  - Restore a PostgreSQL backup
  - Guides
  - FAQ
- MongoDB Backup
  - Restore a MongoDB backup
  - Restore MongoDB Atlas Collection using MongoDB Compass
  - Guides
- Redis Backup
  - Restore a Redis backup
- DBaaS Providers
  - How to create serverless backups for managed databases?
  - DigitalOcean Managed Redis
  - DigitalOcean Managed MySQL
  - DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL
  - DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB
  - DigitalOcean Managed database backup
  - Supabase PostgreSQL
  - AWS RDS
- Help & Tips
  - FAQ
Server & File Backup
- Create a file/server backup
- Restore a file/server backup
Storage Backup
- FAQ
- Guides
- Storage backup in a nutshell
- How to preserve S3 or DigitalOcean Spaces metadata on the files/objects
Server & Volume Snapshot
- Providers
  - DigitalOcean
  - Amazon Lightsail
  - AWS EC2
  - Exoscale
  - Hetzner
  - Scaleway
  - UpCloud
  - Vultr
- Resources
  - Restore a Snapshot
  - FAQ
SaaS App Backup
- Apps
  - Knack
  - GitHub
- Resources
  - FAQ
Storage Providers
- AWS S3
- Amazon S3 Glacier
- Azure Blob
- Alibaba Cloud
- Backblaze B2
- CloudFlare R2
- DigitalOcean Spaces
- Dropbox
- Exoscale
- Egnyte
- Filebase
- Google Cloud Storage
- Google Cloud Storage (S3-compatible credentials)
- Google Drive
- Hetzner Storage Box
- IDrive e2
- MinIO
- NAS or local volume
- Storadera
- SimpleStorage
- UpCloud
- Wasabi
Help, Tips & Troubleshooting
- Connecting a Server
  - SimpleBackups IP addresses (firewall)
  - Automatically provision servers
  - Errors & Troubleshooting
- Storing your backups
  - Errors & Troubleshooting
  - How to customize the backup storage path
  - Backup Storage FAQ
  - Connecting read-only storage bucket
  - Google Cloud Storage Updated
- Backups & Logs
  - Why there are more Backup Log files on my Storage than expected?
  - How to download individual files when backing up all databases?
  - How to decrypt your AES-encrypted backups?
  - How to generate an RSA PEM (asymmetric) key pair?
  - Backup encryption FAQs
- Backup Settings & Options
  - Custom backup schedule via cron
- Others
  - curl 35 ssl error
  - The displayed Storage Usage seems incorrect, what should I do?
  - Can I connect multiple "Cloud Providers" within the same account?
  - Solving Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query when dumping table
  - Backups failing for MySQL server versions (5.7.41 and 8.0.32)
  - PostgreSQL Backup Privileges Issues
  - pg_dump: error: Error message from server: SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected
  - Google Drive - unusual traffic from your computer network
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Free plan

Forever free plan for everyone

What can you do on the Free plan?

Our free plan is designed for users with minimal requirements, needing to backup one non-critical application.

✅ 1 Backup job (either 1 File/Database Backup, or 1 Snapshot or 1 Cloud Sync)
✅ Allowed schedule: Daily
✅ Allowed retention policy: 1 to 3 (number of backups you can keep)

The Free plan won’t be suitable if you need:

❌ More than 1 backup
❌ SimpleStorage quota (the free plan allows you to store data on your own storage only)
❌ Custom Schedules (hourly, at a certain time of the day, based on your time-zone …)
❌ To keep more than 3 backup archives
❌ A serverless backup (backup running on our infrastructure)
❌ To back up remote database (RDS, Managed Database…)
❌ Advanced backup options like “Backing up all databases at once”, “Incremental Backups”, “API & Backups Triggers”, “Backup Streaming”, “Uncompressed Backups” …

You can see the list of premium features in the app together with 🔓 icon.

You’ll also find plan suggestions based on your usage, and usage detail right from your account page.

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Last updated on August 4, 2021

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