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How to Mount S3-Compatible Storage on Your Server and Access it in Your Filesystem
Managing files directly from cloud storage services—like Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), and Backblaze B2—can simplify your workflows…
How to create, grant and show user permissions in MySQL
November 9, 2023
Discover how to effectively manage user permissions in MySQL with our step-by-step guide. Learn to create, grant, and display MySQL…
How to show a list of all MYSQL databases
November 9, 2023
In this post, I will show you how to list all databases on MySQL or MariaDB. There are multiple cases where these commands will come in…
Why You Should Trust Your Backups Without a 2nd Thought
August 26, 2022
If you’re a business owner or a developer, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard the advice to trust your backups without a second thought…
How to Encrypt Your Backups Using SimpleBackups
August 25, 2022
Backups have always been essential to every security and disaster recovery strategy. However, due to the ever-increasing risks of data loss…
The Complete Redis Backup Guide (with examples)
August 9, 2022
In this article, we’ll see how you a real case example of a Redis backup process, end-to-end. We'll cover how to configure a Redis backup…
Automated Amazon Lightsail instance and disk snapshots
August 5, 2022
SimpleBackups is now fully integrated with Amazon Lightsail ! This means you can easily connect your AWS account using their secured IAM…
July 2022: New Dashboard, AWS Lightsail, and custom backup scripts
July 30, 2022
A new dashboard is here! We redesigned the dashboard to save you time. Just a single look and you will be able to figure out: how backups…
How to automate Amazon Lightsail Snapshots
July 22, 2022
The following guide will help you, step by step, automate your Amazon Lightsail server snapshots & volume backups. Afterwards, you will be…
May 2022: Backup Encryption, DigitalOcean Marketplace ...
June 10, 2022
After almost 2 months of daily "I'm on it", we have some cool product upgrades to share! Encrypt your backups like a pro! You can now…