Connecting a Server
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
Storing your backups
Amazon S3 Glacier
Ultra low-cost backup storage using SimpleBackups and Amazon S3 Glacier
AWS S3
Get your website or database backups stored on your own Amazon AWS storage
Dropbox
Connect your Dropbox account to SimpleBackups
DigitalOcean Spaces
Easily leverage your DigitalOcean account into a strong backup storage. Enjoy hourly backup for your websites and databases.
Google Cloud Storage
Store your websites and databases backups on Google Cloud Storage in just a few clicks.
Google Storage Cloud S3-compatible credentials
Generate Access Key and Secret Key for Google Cloud Storage.
Hetzner Storage Box
How to connect Hetzner Storage Box via SFTP to SimpleBackups and use it for backup storage and cloud replication.
NAS or local volume
How to store your backups locally, on a block storage, or on a NAS using SimpleBackups.
SimpleStorage
Our built-in storage solution
Errors & Troubleshooting
How to customize the backup storage path
Explains the different ways you can customize your backup storage path(s).
Egnyte
How to connect Egnyte Storage for backups? Use Egnyte for file backups, database backups, and storage replication.
Backups & Logs
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.
Others
curl 35 ssl error
How to solve curl 35 ssl error - involving SSL/TLS handshake
The displayed Storage Usage seems incorrect, what should I do?
How to reclaim storage space from SimpleStorage and remove backups
Can I connect multiple "Cloud Providers" within the same account?
How to reclaim storage space from SimpleStorage and remove backups
Solving Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query when dumping table
mysqldump: 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)
Backups breaking for MySQL server versions (5.7.41 and 8.0.32)
PostgreSQL Backup Privileges Issues
How to grant enough permissions to your postgres user to create a backup.
pg_dump: error: Error message from server: SSL SYSCALL error: EOF detected
How to solve Postgres dump error: Dumping the contents of table failed: PQgetCopyData() failed