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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
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
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!
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
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
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
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…