Server & Volume Snapshot – SimpleBackups Help Center

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Server & Volume Snapshot
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  - How to generate an RSA PEM (asymmetric) key pair?
- Backup Settings & Options
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- 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
  - mysqldump: Couldn’t execute ‘show create table table_name‘
  - Using Tailscale with Docker for Secure Database Backups
  - Couldn't execute 'FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK’
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Providers

Amazon Lightsail

Step by step guide to automate Amazon Lightsail server and volume snapshots on a custom schedule, daily, hourly, weekly, etc.

AWS EC2

Step by step guide to automate Amazon EC2 server and volume snapshots on a custom schedule, daily, hourly, weekly, etc.

DigitalOcean

Step by step guide to automate DigitalOcean server and volume snapshots on a custom schedule, daily, hourly, weekly, etc.

Exoscale

Step by step guide to automate Exoscale server snapshots and back them up on a custom schedule, daily, hourly, weekly, etc.

Hetzner

Step by step guide to automate Hetzner server snapshots and back them up on a custom schedule, daily, hourly, weekly, etc.

Linode

Step by step guide to retrieve your Linode API credentials

Scaleway

Step by step guide to automate Scaleway server snapshots

UpCloud

Step by step guide to automate UpCloud server snapshots on a custom schedule, daily, hourly, weekly, etc.

Vultr

Step by step guide to automate Vultr server and volume snapshots on a custom schedule, daily, hourly, weekly, etc.

OVH

Step by step guide to automate OVH server and volume snapshots on a custom schedule, daily, hourly, weekly, etc.

Contabo

Step by step guide to automate Contabo snapshots

Resources

Restore a Snapshot

Learn how to restore a Snapshot with SimpleBackups.

FAQ

Common questions and answers about native cloud snapshots.