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SaaS Backups: The Ultimate Guide

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SaaS Backups: The Ultimate Guide

What is SaaS backup? What exactly is SaaS Backup? SaaS backup is the process of creating copies and securely storing data from SaaS…

How to replicate your Storage (s3, Dropbox, ...) with SimpleBackups

How to replicate your Storage (s3, Dropbox, ...) with SimpleBackups

September 19, 2022

Backup your storage (S3, Dropbox, Azure...) Where do you store your application files, documents, media, logs files, events, and the like…

How to fix MySQL lost connection

How to fix MySQL lost connection

September 13, 2022

When running a long or complex query on MySQL you might encounter the error below: This error is often faced when running mysqldump on a…

August 2022: Redis, SFTP, and shiny things!

August 2022: Redis, SFTP, and shiny things!

September 5, 2022

We’ve re-designed our forms to be even easier SimpleBackups grew a lot in the past year and many features have been added to our user…

How to create and grant permissions to a MySQL user

How to create and grant permissions to a MySQL user

August 31, 2022

In this tutorial, we'll describe the common tasks you'll have to deal with when managing access to a MySQL database. Access MySQL command…

How to show all MYSQL databases

How to show all MYSQL databases

August 30, 2022

In this post, I will show you how to list all databases on MySQL or MariaDB. There are multiple cases where theses commands will come in…

Why You Should Trust Your Backups Without a 2nd Thought

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

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)

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

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…