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Automated Amazon Lightsail instance and disk snapshots

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Automated Amazon Lightsail instance and disk snapshots

August 5, 2022

Amazon Lightsail is now a snapshot provider in SimpleBackups. Connect with IAM credentials and back up Lightsail instances with their disks, or disks alone.

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July 2022: New Dashboard, AWS Lightsail, and custom backup scripts

July 2022: New Dashboard, AWS Lightsail, and custom backup scripts

July 30, 2022

Our July 2022 release: a rebuilt dashboard showing backup health and total size at a glance, AWS Lightsail snapshots, and custom scripts around a backup.

May 2022: Backup Encryption, DigitalOcean Marketplace ...

May 2022: Backup Encryption, DigitalOcean Marketplace ...

June 10, 2022

Our May 2022 release: encrypt any backup with your own RSA key using AES-256 through OpenSSL, plus IDrive e2 and Cloudflare R2 as new storage providers.

Your backups on IDrive E2 with SimpleBackups

Your backups on IDrive E2 with SimpleBackups

May 20, 2022

IDrive e2 works with SimpleBackups through the S3-compatible connector. How to connect it, and how its storage and egress pricing compares to other providers.

Use Google Drive to store your backups

Use Google Drive to store your backups

March 23, 2022

Google Drive is now a supported storage provider. Connect it in a few clicks to store database and file backups, or sync another cloud storage to Drive.

March 2022: MongoDB Streaming, CloudSync updates and new API endpoints

March 2022: MongoDB Streaming, CloudSync updates and new API endpoints

March 14, 2022

Our March 2022 release: Cloud-Sync now runs serverless with no middle-man server, whole buckets can be synced from their root, plus new API endpoints.

Automated Scaleway server and volume snapshots

Automated Scaleway server and volume snapshots

March 11, 2022

Scaleway is now a supported snapshot provider. Back up a Scaleway server with every attached volume, or back up individual volumes, on a schedule you set.

January 2022: Cloud Storage Sync & MySQL Binlog support

January 2022: Cloud Storage Sync & MySQL Binlog support

February 4, 2022

Our January 2022 release: synchronize a bucket across providers and regions, for example S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces, plus support for MySQL binlog backups.

Let your agency customers own their backups

Let your agency customers own their backups

January 11, 2022

Provide access to your backups and snapshots to a restricted set of users. Manage these resources using projects, and define what team member can access them.

November 2021 Release Notes

November 2021 Release Notes

November 30, 2021

Our November 2021 release: bucket sync in beta, a backup summary report, revamped notifications, SRV record support for database hosts, and Linux ARM64.