Tutorials & How Tos

Illegal mix of collations error in MySQL

Illegal mix of collations error in MySQL - utf8mb4_general_ci and utf8mb4_unicode_ci

Written by Islam Essam
Updated this week

Change timezone for backups / snapshots

How to set the time zone for backups and snapshots.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Restore a PostgreSQL Database Backup

Restore a PostgreSQL database backup.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Create website files & database backups

Setting up a website and database backup using SimpleBackups.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Restore a Single MySQL Database Backup

Restore a Single MySQL database backup.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Restore a MongoDB Backup

Restore a MongoDB database backup.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to store your backups on Google Storage

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

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

How to create Google Storage Cloud credentials?

Generate Access Key and Secret Key for Google Cloud Storage.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to store your backups on Dropbox

Transform your Dropbox account into a strong website and database backup storage.

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

How to store your backup on DigitalOcean Space

Easily leverage your DigitalOcean account into a strong backup storage. Enjoy hourly backup for your websites and databases.

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

Mount DigitalOcean Spaces Bucket On Linux

Back Up DigitalOcean Spaces Bucket To Another Storage Provider

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to create DigitalOcean Spaces credentials?

Generate Access Key and Secret Key for DigitalOcean Spaces.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to store your backup on Amazon AWS

Get your website or database backups stored on your own Amazon AWS storage

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

How to create Amazon S3 credentials?

Generate Access Key and Secret Key for AWS S3.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to automate Hetzner Server and Volume Snapshots?

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

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Create Jelastic File or Database Backup

How to set up SimpleBackups and Jelastic

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Amazon RDS Database Backup

Back up AWS RDS automatically to your cloud storage.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to configure your first MySQL database backup

Have your MySQL database backups scheduled and stored your preferred storage

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

Enable Remote MySQL Connections for Amazon RDS

Whitelist IP addresses for Amazon RDS

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Store your backups on Amazon S3 Glacier

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

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Rapid Server Setup

Magically connect SimpleBackups to newly provisioned servers on AWS EC2, Amazon Lightsail, DigitalOcean, Laravel Forge, ...

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How can I create an Hourly backup?

Explains how to use the backup trigger URL to create custom backup schedules and run backups on-demand.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to change or add a backup notification email?

Send backup notifications to another email.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Solving -bash: command not found

If you are seeing "-bash: command not found" every time you enter a command, then something is definitely wrong.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Restore MongoDB Atlas Collection using MongoDB Compass

How to import a MongoDB collection in MongoDB Atlas Step by step using Compass

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Create a passwordless sudo user

Create new user on Ubuntu, with sudo access without password.

Written by Islam Essam
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Solving: PostgreSQL ERROR - canceling statement due to conflict with recovery.

How to solve PostgreSQL ERROR - canceling statement due to conflict with recovery

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to automate DigitalOcean Server and Volume Snapshots?

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

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Problem connecting Google Cloud Storage

Disable uniform bucket-level access for Google Cloud Storage

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Restore a File Backup

Restore a file backup on your server.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Create Hourly Backups using Zapier

Create a Zap to run hourly backups for you.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Enable Remote MySQL Connections in cPanel

Whitelist IP addresses in cPanel for MySQL

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How do I change the temporary backup folder?

Change the temporary backup folder used by SimpleBackups.

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

Enable Remote MySQL Connections in WHM

Whitelist IP addresses in WHM for MySQL

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago