Storage Backup – SimpleBackups Help Center

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  - 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
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  - mysqldump: Couldn’t execute ‘show create table table_name‘
  - Using Tailscale with Docker for Secure Database Backups
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FAQ

FAQ on Storage Backup

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?