News, tips, guides and tools by the creators of SimpleBackups web
June 10, 2020
Restore a Linux file backup from a tar archive: get the raw download link, pull the archive onto your server with wget, and extract it into the right path.
June 10, 2020
Back up an Amazon RDS MySQL database to AWS S3 automatically: get your endpoint and credentials, allow the connection, and schedule standard SQL dumps.
June 10, 2020
Every DigitalOcean datacenter region and location, from New York to Sydney, which ones DigitalOcean treats as legacy, and which Droplet plans run in each.
June 9, 2020
A mysqldump script that backs up a MySQL database and uploads the dump to Amazon S3, scheduled with cron, with a video walking through every line of it.
June 6, 2020
Set up daily file and database backups for a site on a DigitalOcean Droplet: add the server, validate the connection, and run the database backup hourly.
October 21, 2019
Rapid Server Setup connects a newly provisioned server to SimpleBackups with one command, so backups start the moment a DigitalOcean Droplet comes online.
October 6, 2019
Locked out of a DigitalOcean Droplet with no SSH key? Snapshot it, build a new Droplet from that snapshot with a key you hold, and get your data back.
April 11, 2019
One bucket per customer, or one bucket with a folder each? The pros and cons we found running both on AWS S3 and DigitalOcean Spaces, and which one won out.
January 13, 2019
A client lost EC2, RDS and S3 on Christmas Day when AWS suspended the account. What happened, and why one cloud provider should not hold everything you run.
