News, tips, guides and tools by the creators of SimpleBackups web
October 18, 2022
Incremental MySQL backups are one option away in SimpleBackups. What they are, when a growing database calls for one, and where the full guide lives.
October 13, 2022
Restore an existing DigitalOcean Droplet from a snapshot: find the image in the control panel, run Restore Droplet, and know what the restore replaces.
October 11, 2022
Check, run, download, restore your backups from anywhere on your Mac. Supercharge your productivity, experience SimpleBackups like never before with Raycast
September 22, 2022
Incremental MySQL backups copy only what changed since the last run. How the level-0 to level-6 chain works, how retention resets it, and how to set one up.
September 22, 2022
Set up storage replication in SimpleBackups: keep a copy of a bucket in a second location, guard against deletions, and migrate providers without manual work.
September 19, 2022
Replicate a bucket across storage providers: mirror AWS S3 to Dropbox, Wasabi, Google Cloud or Azure, and use the same setup to migrate between providers.
August 26, 2022
Most people never check that a backup is valid. How notifications and anomaly detection tell you when a run went wrong, instead of leaving you to find out.
August 25, 2022
Encrypt backups with AES-256 using your own RSA key pair: generate the keys, turn encryption on for a backup, and decrypt the archive when you restore it.
July 22, 2022
Automate Amazon Lightsail instance and disk snapshots: build an IAM policy with the least permissions needed, connect AWS, and set how many snapshots to keep.
