The SimpleBackups Blog
News, tips, guides and tools by the creators of SimpleBackups
Latest Post
How to Analyze PostgreSQL Table Size
When your database becomes large, you'll want to dig further and see what tables is using space and identify if how to optimize this.\ This…
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…
How to connect IDrive e2
May 31, 2022
1. Create your IDrive e2 Bucket Log into your IDrive account Go to the Buckets page and click on Create Bucket Fill in your Bucket name…
How to back up MongoDB to Google Drive
May 26, 2022
Backup your MongoDB database(s) using SimpleBackups and store it on Google Drive. If you're already using Google Drive, leveraging it to…
How to back up MySQL to Google Drive
October 18, 2023
Backup your MySQL database(s) using SimpleBackups and store it on Google Drive. If you're already using Google Drive, leveraging it to store…