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Tutorials & How Tos
Figure out to carry out certain tasks using SimpleBackups.
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Islam Essam
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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
How to dump stored procedures/functions on MySQL
Add the --routines flag to dump MySQL database stored procedures and functions.
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