Tutorials & How Tos

Figure out to carry out certain tasks using SimpleBackups.

48 articles in this collection
Written by Islam Essam and Laurent Lemaire

How to backup..

How to decrypt your AES-encrypted backups?

Decrypt backups step by step using your RSA private key and AES

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Get your server configured for your first backup, the simple way.

Can't be easier. Our one-command solution for server backup configuration.

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

How to configure your first DigitalOcean droplet backup

First time setting up backups with DigitalOcean? We'll cover how to get you started and show you how to schedule your first hourly backup.

Written by Laurent Lemaire
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

Get started with cloud storage for backups

Store your website backups on any cloud storage (AWS, DigitalOcean, Dropbox, Wasabi, Google, ...).

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

How to automate Hetzner Server Snapshots?

Step by step guide to automate Hetzner server 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

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

Restore a File Backup

Restore a file backup on your server or VPS.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to backup your database

Connect DigitalOcean Managed Redis to SimpleBackups

How to use the connection string method to connect DigitalOcean Managed Redis database to SimpleBackups. Add firewall rules for Redis.

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

How to create serverless backups for managed databases?

Explains how to back up managed databases using the serverless backups feature.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Connect DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB to SimpleBackups

How to use the connection string method to connect DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB to SimpleBackups. Add firewall rules for MongoDB.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to Restore a Redis Backup

Restore a Redis cache database backup using the following steps.

Written by Laurent Lemaire
Updated over a week ago

How to create a Passwordless MySQL Backup

How to use MySQL configuration file to allow authentication without credentials for MySQL backups.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to restore a Single MySQL Database Backup

Restore a Single MySQL database backup.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Connect DigitalOcean Managed MySQL to SimpleBackups

How to use the connection string method to connect DigitalOcean Managed MySQL to SimpleBackups. Add firewall rules for MySQL.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Connect DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL to SimpleBackups

How to use the connection string method to connect DigitalOcean Managed PostgreSQL to SimpleBackups. Add firewall rules for PostgreSQL.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to enable Remote MySQL Connections for Amazon RDS

Whitelist IP addresses for Amazon RDS. Add firewall rules on AWS for RDS.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to Restore a MongoDB Backup

Restore a MongoDB database backup.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to Enable Binary Log for MySQL or MariaDB

Incremental MySQL/MariaDB backups using Bin Logs

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

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

How to store...

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 customize the backup storage path

Explains the different ways you can customize your backup storage path(s).

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Connect Hetzner Storage Box to SimpleBackups

How to connect Hetzner Storage Box via SFTP to SimpleBackups and use it for backup storage and cloud replication.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Store backups on your NAS or local volume

How to store your backups locally, on a block storage, or on a NAS using SimpleBackups.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

How to create S3-compatible 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 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

Features

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

Supercharge your productivity, experience SimpleBackups like never before with Raycast

Check, run, download, restore your backups from anywhere on your Mac

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

Tips & tricks

Enable WSL and SSH into Windows with Bash

How to enable Window Subsystem for Linux, SSH into Windows server, and use bash to interact with Windows filesystem.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago

Change timezone for backups / snapshots

How to set the time zone for backups and snapshots.

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
Updated over a week ago

Known problem connecting Google Cloud Storage

Disable uniform bucket-level access for Google Cloud Storage

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. Add firewall rules 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. Add firewall rules for MySQL.

Written by Islam Essam
Updated over a week ago