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Changelog - March 2026 #2

🚀 What's New

Australia backup region New backup infrastructure in Australia. If you're running workloads in the Asia-Pacific region, your backups will now be faster and more reliable.


✅ Fixes & Improvements

  • Fixed structure-only database backups flagged as empty — Structure-only DB backups created with --no-data were incorrectly marked as empty due to small file size. Updated detection logic to properly handle these backups.
  • Fixed copy to clipboard in backup logs — Clicking the copy button for backup archive links now works properly instead of throwing permission errors.
  • Improved backup index search with quoted names — You can now search for servers and storage with spaces in their names using quotes like server:"My Server". Also shows actual storage provider icons instead of generic cloud icons in search results.
  • Fixed Pushover notification channel validation — Pushover notifications were failing validation. Issue is now resolved.
  • Cleaned up server edit UI for non-K8s servers — The Kubernetes configuration section no longer appears when editing servers that weren't originally set up with K8s.
  • Fixed info button on backup health maps — The (i) button next to "Last run" and "Last Restore Point" now properly opens the log dialog.
  • Fixed compliance board display issue — Locked backups info bar no longer appears broken on the Compliance Board page.
  • Fixed console errors in snapshot logs — Eliminated JavaScript errors that were appearing in the browser console when viewing snapshot log listings.
  • Improved code formatting in UI — Configuration lines that should display as code blocks now properly render with monospace formatting instead of plain text.
  • Fixed retention update requiring re-validation — You can now update backup retention settings without being forced to re-validate working database connections.
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Changelog - March 2026 #2

🚀 What's New

Australia backup region New backup infrastructure in Australia. If you're running workloads in the Asia-Pacific region, your backups will now be faster and more reliable.


✅ Fixes & Improvements

  • Fixed structure-only database backups flagged as empty — Structure-only DB backups created with --no-data were incorrectly marked as empty due to small file size. Updated detection logic to properly handle these backups.
  • Fixed copy to clipboard in backup logs — Clicking the copy button for backup archive links now works properly instead of throwing permission errors.
  • Improved backup index search with quoted names — You can now search for servers and storage with spaces in their names using quotes like server:"My Server". Also shows actual storage provider icons instead of generic cloud icons in search results.
  • Fixed Pushover notification channel validation — Pushover notifications were failing validation. Issue is now resolved.
  • Cleaned up server edit UI for non-K8s servers — The Kubernetes configuration section no longer appears when editing servers that weren't originally set up with K8s.
  • Fixed info button on backup health maps — The (i) button next to "Last run" and "Last Restore Point" now properly opens the log dialog.
  • Fixed compliance board display issue — Locked backups info bar no longer appears broken on the Compliance Board page.
  • Fixed console errors in snapshot logs — Eliminated JavaScript errors that were appearing in the browser console when viewing snapshot log listings.
  • Improved code formatting in UI — Configuration lines that should display as code blocks now properly render with monospace formatting instead of plain text.
  • Fixed retention update requiring re-validation — You can now update backup retention settings without being forced to re-validate working database connections.
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Changelog - March 2026 #1

✅ Fixes & Improvements

  • Fixed backup validation flags not passed — Server and file backup flags like backup_tar_donot_expand_symlinks weren't being forwarded during validation, causing timeouts. Fixed.
  • The symlink flag is now enabled by default for file backups.
  • Added prefixes to auto-generated names — All randomly generated names now include a type prefix for clarity: backup-muddy-rice-2965, snapshot-muddy-rice-2965, stack-muddy-rice-2965.
  • Improved server validation flow — Renamed "Validate connection" to "Check connection" and updated the validation process to work better alongside action items.
  • Fixed Redis backup validation — Redis backups were incorrectly throwing a "DB Name field is required" error during validation. Fixed.
  • Added Stacks to dashboard — Stack backup options are now visible in the "Configure your backup" section with proper shortcuts.
  • UI polish — Fixed modal close button hover color, improved bulk backup creation transitions, and cleaned up empty states and loading indicators.
  • Plan usage modal improvements — Suggested plan messaging is now more consistent across the application.
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Changelog - March 2026 #1

  • Fixed backup validation flags not forwarding during validation
  • Enabled symlink flag by default for file backups
  • Added type prefixes to auto-generated names
  • Renamed "Validate connection" to "Check connection"
  • Fixed Redis backup validation errors
  • Added Stacks to dashboard configuration
  • Polish improvements to modals and bulk creation transitions
  • Enhanced plan usage modal messaging
Feature

Mega Storage Provider

Use Mega as a backup destination for your databases, servers, and applications.

You can also back up your Mega files to other providers while leveraging Mega's end-to-end encryption.

Feature

OneDrive Storage Provider

OneDrive is now supported as a backup destination for your databases, servers, and applications.

Works with both Personal and Business accounts. You can also back up your OneDrive files to other providers.

Feature

Notification System Enhancements

Revamped the notification channels screen for easier management and added handling for inactive email recipients to prevent notification failures.

Feature

ISO27001 Compliance & Audit Logs

Completed ISO audit requirements and finalized third-party audit. Overhauled audit log flow for better action tracking and fixed duplicate events for locked/unlocked backups.

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Product Updates - Performance & UI

  • Performance optimization: Reduced API timeouts and 504 errors — loading time decreased by up to 75%
  • Dashboard 2.1 improvements with responsive UI enhancements
  • Consistent date formatting across the platform
  • Fixed snapshot collision issues
  • Updated documentation
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Postgres Backup Performance Overhaul

New dumping engine designed for large datasets with significantly faster execution times, improved debugging capabilities, and support for new URI formats.

Feature

Product Updates

⚡ Performance Optimization

  • Major reduction in API timeouts and 504 errors.

  • Heavily improved load times across the entire application with loading time decreased to up to 75%.

  • Better optimized used of websocket throughout the application for a more fluid experience

  • Optimized "HealthMap" computation and listing rendering.


🖥️ Dashboard 2.1

  • Health Map: Fixed computation issues and multiple bars for same run
  • Responsive UI: Better mobile and tablet responsiveness
  • Bug Fixes: Numerous UI fixes and improvements

✨ UI/UX Improvements

  • Consistent date formatting across all pages and components
  • Better navigation responsiveness
  • Fixed health map computation
  • Improved storage and provider listing pages
  • Fixed dropdown date UI in DB restore
  • Standardized date formatting across the app and improved mobile responsivity for navigation.

🐛 Key Fixes

  • Fixed issues where snapshots could trigger multiple times on custom schedules.
  • Fixed "Switch Trial" errors and Multi-schedule default retention bugs.
  • Backup Collision detection enhancements,
  • Resolved "Passwordless Backup" option issues in edit backup
  • Fixed delete account button functionality
  • Fixed GitHub marketplace login redirect issues
  • Resolved empty content in Notion logs
  • Fixed trial extension switching to old trial
  • Fixed locked backups on Lite plan

📚 Documentation & Support

  • Updated Agent Documentation: Added missing agent information in backup workers docs
  • Storage Help Articles: Fixed missing storage help article links
  • Updated UI Documentation: Documentation updated to reflect new UI changes
Feature

Brand-New Dashboard

The dashboard has been completely redesigned with:

  • Recent activity visibility at a glance
  • Backup shortcuts for quick access to common actions
  • Usage overview showing current storage, server, and database usage
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Agent v2 Release

Agent v2 has been released with:

  • One-line installer for quick setup
  • Cross-platform support for Linux and macOS
  • Automatic self-updates to always stay current
  • Improved reliability with better logging and firewall handling
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Agent v1.2 release

🧠 Agent v2 Released — A major update to our local Agent! The new Agent is faster, more stable, and easier to install across environments.

New installer: one-line setup that automatically handles dependencies and permissions. Cross-platform: now runs seamlessly on Linux and macOS (Docker included).

Smarter self-update: the Agent keeps itself up to date automatically, so you always run the latest, most secure version without manual intervention.

Improved reliability: better logging, error recovery, and connection handling for setups behind firewalls or NAT.

Why it matters: you can now deploy and maintain Agents effortlessly—whether it’s for local dev, production, or CI/CD environments—with less overhead and more trust in your backups.

Feature

New SimpleBackups UI

We’ve upgraded the app—both under the hood and in the UI—so everything feels faster, smoother, and more consistent. You’ll see refreshed screens rolling out week by week.

✅ New Backup pages and listings – clearer structure, faster load, and richer filters so you can slice backups the way you work.

✅ New navigation & project scope – jump between projects and the entire app context updates to that scope (lists, stats, actions).

Why it matters: Less clicking around, quicker answers, and a UI that stays out of your way.

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MariaDB Support and Security audit

✅ MariaDB latest version support released

🔒 Security patches: we ran a security audit and made several application improvements

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Editable Storage for Backups

You can now edit both primary and secondary storage linked to a backup, even after it has already run.

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🔧 Database & Backup Improvements

- PostgreSQL version compatibility fixes: Now using appropriate pg_dump versions for different PostgreSQL installations to avoid restore errors

- MySQL restore safety enhancements: Improved in-app and cli messaging during restore process

- Object-locked storage validation: Improved validation for write-once storage configurations

- Better backup success verification: Enhanced file existence and size checks beyond just exit codes

- System database filtering: Added options to include/exclude system databases in backup operations

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Security, Notifications & Infrastructure improvements

✅ Security audit performed together with improvements on multiple aspects of the application

✅ Proper Stripe handling of 'out-of-sync' plan changes

✅ Improved email notification setup - clearer instructions for adding multiple email addresses to a channel

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UX & Notion Backup Improvements

- UI/UX polish: Fixed various frontend bugs and improved navigation

- Better error messaging:. Enhanced console tab visibility and error communication

- Notion backup improvements: Better handling of untitled pages

- Documentation updates: Fixed broken links and improved backup process videos

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Notion Backup major improvements

The new version for Notion Backups fixes several issues introduced with the latest Notion API updates.

✅ Faster backup

✅ Alignement with Notion API for better handling of errors and throttling.

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Local Agent (private release)

We're thrilled to announce SimpleBackups Agent is now available in private release.

Local Agent, allows you to backup your data without needing to open an SSH connection with SimpleBackups. Install a lightweight agent locally on your server and let him communicate with SimpleBackups.

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Feature

New plans and addons

We've introduced new pricing plans simplifying SimpleBackups offering.

The Basic plan (free plan) now allows for addons to automatically extend resources (backup, storages, bandwidth...) without the need of a paid subscription. While the Plus plan offers advanced features.

Feature

Docker Database Backups

You can now back up databases within Docker containers directly from the host, no need to expose access. Simply connect your host, select your container, and back up effortlessly!

MySQL Database Docker Backup

PostgreSQL Database Docker Backup

MongoDB Database Docker Backup

Redis Database Docker Backup

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GitHub Backup Improvements

We've released many improvements to GitHub Backups, including:

  • UI fixes
  • Support for Organization accounts
  • Display of connected accounts in the UI
  • Improved selection & exclusion of repositories
  • Performance improvements
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SimpleBackups API Updates

The SimpleBackups API now supports:

  • Projects: fetch projects, assign projects to backups
  • Multi-Schedule Backups
  • Multi-Storage Backups

All of these changes are documented in our API Doc.

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Knack Backup improvements

We’ve made significant improvements to the Knack Backup experience, focusing on usability and reliability.

  • On-Screen validation for your Application ID and API Key
  • Introduced a new, user-friendly input interface for selecting objects.
  • Easily search through available objects to find exactly what you need.
  • Added a convenient “Select All” option for faster configuration.

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Feature

Audit Logs

We’ve added audit logs to the SimpleBackups UI! This new feature enhances transparency and provides better tracking of all actions performed on your account.

With audit logs, you can:

  • Track updates to your backups: Settings changes, access updates, and more.
  • Track updates to connected elements: Storage, servers, and other linked resources.
  • Track updates to your account: Invitations, access rights, and other account-related changes.

These logs are available on every backups and right from your "Backup Recovery & Compliance Board".

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Notion Backup improvements

  • Improved metadata collection for Notion
  • Support for backup with files hosted on Notion storage + restore steps
  • Support for PDF Block type
Feature

SimpleBackups is a verified AWS partner!

We've proudly joined the network of AWS partners, vetted to be featured on their marketplace!

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Feature

Backup Metrics

All application backups now display advanced information about the content that has been backed up!

This allows you to see exactly what has been backed up directly from the UI for the following backup types:

  • GitHub Backup
  • GitLab Backup
  • Gitea Backup
  • Notion Backup
  • Knack Backup

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Backup Recovery Test Reminder

Be automatically notified when your Backup Recovery Plan should be tested, log all your tests and stay compliant.

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Verified GitHub Marketplace Partner

SimpleBackups is now an GitHub Marketplace verified partner.

While you were already able to connect your GitHub account in SimpleBackups to backup all your GitHub data, we're now featured right from the official Marketplace.

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GitLab Backup v2!

We've released the new version of GitLab Backup:

✅ OAuth Connect

✅ Personal Access Token Connect

✅ Advanced Repositories Selection

✅ Auto Discover mode

✅ Support for ALL GitLab meta data

✨ New smooth UX you'll love using!

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Notion Backup Performance

⚡️ Improved backups speed: Notion Backups performance have been greatly improved, resulting in an increase in backup speed up-to 1000%.

Improved backups restore: Unsupported object blocks are now properly reported in your backup logs as well as in the recovery process.

Feature

Collision Detection & Performance

With Collision detection, if your backup overlap another running backup we'll automatically put it in a "pending" mode until the previous backups is released.

The algorithm will then dynamically assess whether this backup should be skipped, replicated, or just ran.

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Feature

Supabase Storage Support

You can now connect your Supabase Object storage to SimpleBackups allowing you to:

✅ Store your backups on Supabase Storage

✅ Migrate from/to Supabase Storage

✅ Backup your Supabase Storage to any provider

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Feature

GitHub Backup v2

Backup all your GitHub repositories and metadatas with ease!

In this version 2 you'll be able to connect your GitHub account using OAuth, use advanced rules (inclusion/exclusion) and backup all GitHub metadata (PR, wiki, issues, labels, projects, releases...).

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Feature

Improved support for Aiven backup

You can now back up your Aiven MySQL and PostgreSQL databases! Connect your Aiven account and backup databases.

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Improved display of dates and timezones

When working with timezones it's sometimes hard to read dates and compare them to the timezone that you're on.

A "popover" will now show up every time you pass your mouse over a date and display the date on multiple timezones directly:

  • Timezone configured on your SimpleBackups account
  • UTC
  • Timezone of your computer

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Feature

Configure multiple schedules and retention schemes for your backups ⏱️

You can now configure up to 4 schedules per backup!

No need to duplicate your backup configuration to run it at different times, all his handled seamlessly from SimpleBackups backup interface.

Why this is an huge upgrade for your backups?

✅ Run your backup at your preferred schedules

✅ Create a strong retention strategy by managing it on the schedule level

This means you could now easily keep 7 daily backups, 4 weekly and 12 monthly backups. This also works with custom schedule, offering you full flexibility of your schedules and retentions.

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Improved support for Scaleway DbaaS

You can now use Scaleway DB as a service to auto fill the database backup connection form. Connect your Scaleway account and backup your MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis databases.

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Feature

Notion Backup, now supported! 🎉

Added Notion backup support, allowing users to backup Notion databases, pages, and blocks. Along with Notion restore functionality directly from the SimpleBackups interface.

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Improved support for Amazon RDS DbaaS

You can now use Amazon RDS DB as a service to auto fill the database backup connection form. Connect your Amazon RDS account and backup your MySQL, PostgreSQL, Aurora databases.

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Improved support for Scalingo DbaaS

You can now use Scalingo DB as a service to auto fill the database backup connection form. Connect your Scalingo account and backup your MySQL, PostgreSQL databases.

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Support for GitLab variable backup

You can now back up your GitLab variables all together with your repositories, issues, merge requests and projects.

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Improved support for Neon DbaaS

You can now use Neon DB as a service to auto fill the database backup connection form.

Connect your Neon account and backup your PostgreSQL databases.

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Improved support for OVH DbaaS

You can now use OVH DB as a service to auto fill the database backup connection form.

Connect your OVH account and backup your MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis databases.

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Improved support for Vultr DbaaS

You can now use Vultr DB as a service to auto fill the database backup connection form.

Connect your Vultr account and backup your MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis databases.

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Feature

Multi-Storage Backup 🚀

We've always been advocating for multi-storage and now we're bringing it to the front scene with this new release!

From your backup configuration screen, select up to 4 different storages to host your backups.

➡️ SimpleBackups takes care of transferring, monitoring and rotating your backups no matter where they are stored.

This is the right step toward data security insuring your backups are available on multiple providers including SimpleStorage!

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Flatten Backup File Structure

You can now flatten your backups files without having the full directory path in your backup archive.

The backup of /root/demo/file1.json will translate into an archive containing file1.json only (without the full path).

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Enhanced Chroot Backup Support

SimpleBackups introduces an update enabling seamless backups in chroot environments, making it easier for everyone to secure their data without technical hassles.

Feature

OVH Support

You can now backup your OVH servers and volume using our new connector!

Feature

Project v2.0

We've released a new evolution of "Project".

Project now becomes the beacon for all you project's backups. A central place where you can see and share the most important information about your backups.

Most teams use it for:

✅ Sharing external access to your backups essential information (perfect to share to your boss, or clients)

✅ "Compliance" data at hand (ISO, SOC2, ...) - quick view sharable to who needs to audit you

Feature

Support for Outscale

Automate all your OutScale backups with our new integration.

✅ File Backups

✅ Server Snapshots

✅ Storage Backups

✅ Store your backups on Outscale Object Storage

Feature

✨ New Backup Experience

We've revamped the way backups are created. Helpers, links to documentation and overall more sexy UI to get your backups configured in no-time!

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Feature

Backups add-on now self-served!

You can now increase your SimpleStorage quota or your Bandwidth transfer right from SimpleBackups. No need yo reach out to our support team (while they're always there to assist of course!)

Available from the "Plan usage" page right now!

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MongoDB Backup Improvement

Full support for mongosh for newer versions of MongoDB with improved dump options.

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Snapshot status fix

[Fix]

Some Snapshots were "skipped" when the user account was exceeding it's limit.

This will now translate into a "failed" backup rather than a "skipped" one.

Feature

Gitea Backup Support

You can now backup your Gitea data using SimpleBackups.

Go to backup / recipe / Gitea or check our documentation to find more.

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Backup restores via rsync

Support for file restores when backups are only accessible on an SSH/SFTP storage.

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Scalingo Support

Added support for Scalingo containerized private databases (MySQL, Postgres, and Mongo)

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UpCloud & GitHub fixes

[Fix]

  • Fixed an issue where users weren't able to view their UpCloud snapshot sizes
  • Fixed an issue where some users were experiencing failed GitHub organization backups on a specific repository
Feature

🏎 Zero-config DigitalOcean Database Backups

Introducing the easiest and quickest way to back up all your DigitalOcean Managed databases. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis.

  1. Create a backup
  2. Connect DigitalOcean
  3. Import your desired database
  4. Done

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🔑 Passwordless MySQL Backups

SimpleBackups now allows you not to enter you database credentials, if you prefer to keep them secure, on your own server.

Feature

↩️ MySQL Database Restore Automation

For Single MySQL database backups, you can now use the brand new restore wizard which will help you restore your MySQL backup in no time. No knowledge required.

Use it to restore a previous copy of your database on a new server under a new database, or on the same server! Makes backup testing a breeze!

You may:

  • Restore a copy on your local environment
  • Restore it on Docker
  • Restore it on RDS
Feature

🧩 Supabase Database Backups

We have added support for Supabase backups. Just a connection string is needed, and SimpleBackups will take care of the rest for you.

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Feature

Redis database backup support

You can now back up your Redis database like you’re used to for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.

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SFTP storage support

You can plug your SFTP server into SimpleBackups and use it like any other storage provider.

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This means you can now:

  • Store your backups directly on your SFTP server
  • Use your SFTP server for replication, meaning any bucket can be replicated to your SFTP server and the other way around! 😎
Feature

Google Sign-in method

You can now use Google to securely sign to SimpleBackups (together with GitHub and DigitalOcean).

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💽 32-bit systems are now supported

We have added support for backups on 32-bit systems (i386) - whether you are still using these machines or want to use SimpleBackups to back them up and migrate to a newer one, we have got you covered.

Feature

🖼️ A new dashboard is here!

One look is worth a 1000 seconds. We redesigned the dashboard to save you time. Just a single look and you will be able to figure out:

  • how backups and snapshots are doing,
  • backup health over the last days,
  • the total size of backups,
  • and overall account statistics.

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🛰️ Sync buckets metadata, too

You can now choose to sync and replicate metadata of the files/objects stored on S3 or DigitalOcean Spaces when copying data from one bucket or region to another (other providers supported as well).

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Plan updates!

We've just updated our plans together with better plan validation, overall system improvements, and new features (like Backup Encryption with RSA key)!

https://simplebackups.com/pricing/

If you're already a paying user, no change for you, your plan will remain as it was.

For free users, you might be slightly impacted depending on what feature you were using. Some "un-enforced" rules are now correctly validated.

If you were in your trial while the plan changed, you can still ask to be on our previous plans (just reach out to us).

All our paying plans now also include new features, better performance and a lot more that you can find on our latest release note.

If you have any questions/remarks regarding this release, make sure to ping us, we're hidden in the bottom right corner of the app 😉.

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Support of 2 new Wasabi regions

In March, Wasabi opened two new storage regions in Frankfurt, Germany, and Toronto, Canada.

You can now select these regions from your storage connection window 🤘.

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MongoDB backup streaming

When using this option, you'll require less storage on your server as data will be streamed by a chunk of 50MB.

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Feature

API endpoints for Backup Statistics

We've added 3 new endpoints:

1. Resource Activity

Returns all your resources (backups, snapshots, or cloud-syncs) with the list of logs ordered by date, information about its server, storage, and the next planned schedules.

2. Logs Activity

Returns all your logs order by date.

3. Report Activity

For each resource, returns the number of successful jobs, error jobs, storage used, and available backups stored.

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Cloud Storage Synchronisation improvements

Cloud-Sync goes serverless: this means you don't need any server in-between, we take care of the all process.

Backup an entire bucket: You can now use Cloud-Sync to synchronize entire buckets (right from their root folders).

Feature

Incremental MySQL Backup

With the support of MySQL binlog, you can now make incremental backups for your MySQL databases!

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Feature

📁 Manage who can view what using Projects.

You can now define who in your team can access what backup(s) or snapshot(s). Create a project, define who can access it and what backups/snapshots are part of it.

Hint: use it to grant a view access to your customers.

When assigned to a team, a user only has a view access and won't be able to create/edit backups.

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Feature

⚡️Database SSH Tunnels are here!

Keep your databases privately accessible, and tunnel your database backups through SSH to get them done securely. No effort on your end!


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Feature

📣 ARM64 backups are now supported

You can now use SimpleBackups to back up your Linux ARM64 (aarch64) server instances. A famous family of instances that we can welcome now is the Amazon EC2 T4g family.

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🛰 Database SRV records, now served.

Whether your database host is a SRV record or not, just paste it in and let us do handle the rest. SimpleBackups now fully supports SRV records for database hosts.

Previously, it was only possible to use them via connection strings.

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✨ Improved dashboard

You can now have a clear view of your plan usage and know which plan suits you the best!

On top of that, you can always access your details usage view from your team settings page.

Feature

🔔 Push notifications support

Take backup notifications further and get notified by push notifications using Pushover about your backups.

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Feature

🔐 AES-256 Backup Encryption

You now have the option to encrypt your backups using AES-256 via an encryption key and openssl.

Just enter the path of your encryption key (on the advanced backup options tab) and SimpleBackups will take it from there.

Encryption is supported on:

  • PostgreSQL Backups
  • MongoDB Backups
  • MySQL Backups
  • File Backups
Feature

🔑 Direct access to backups on storage

Whenever possible, you can now directly access your backup in a single click on your own storage from the dashboard.

Currently works with:

  • DigitalOcean Spaces
  • Dropbox
  • Wasabi
  • Filebase
  • Exoscale
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⚡️ Improved MySQL backup streaming

We have recently introduced a numerous ways to dump MySQL databases. Want them compressed? Uncompressed? Streamed and uncompressed? It's your choice.

Choose from the many combinations we offer what suits your needs the best.

Feature

🚦 Started by mistake? Stop a backup immediately.

You now have the option to stop/kill running backups in case you started them by error. Previously you needed to wait until the backup is finished which consumed unnecessary time and resources.

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Realtime Logs

You can now see your backup logs in realtime, right from your backup run information page.

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📫 Invoice Notifications

You can now receive your invoices via email and configure your billing email address.

You can now define a billing email address which will only be used for sending invoices notification. This will allow you to keep your billing related emails separated from any backup or account related notifications.

How to set this up?

https://my.simplebackups.io/settings

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✨ New Backup Configuration UI

The backup configuration form has been refreshed!

You can now, connect your server, connect your storage and configure your backup from the same screen.

List connected improvements included in this release:

  • Backup form interface refresh
  • One-click SimpleStorage creation
  • Improved onboarding experience
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🔔 Snapshot Notifications

[Fix]

We have fixed a problem where some users where getting undesired notifications on Snapshot events.

Feature

📸 Server & Volume Snapshots

You can now take Server and Volume Snapshots right from SimpleBackups!🎉

We currently support:

Many more integration will come soon! You can find more information about this on our dedicated page.

Feature

💾 Local Backup Storage (NAS backups)

💾 Store your backups on your own server storage, or in-house 🏠

When you create a backup, you can now choose to store it locally!

  • Achieve fast backup write performance on local storage.
  • The storage location can either be a local volume, a mounted volume, or even a NAS (Network Attached Storage).
Improvement

🌙 Dark Mode available

We've added a "dark theme" to SimpleBackups.

You can enable it from your account menu:

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Feature

Release note

🤝 Backblaze partnership

SimpleBackups is now an official Backblaze B2 integration! We've joined their close circle of preferred integrated solution.

✉️ Better email deliverability

We've changed the email service we use to "Postmark" in order to improve email deliverability. We know that email notifications are crucial for some of our users.

🤩 Special thanks to a special customer

We want to thank Youness for all the constructive feedback he provided us! He helped us make the SimpleBackups experience better for you. Thank you, Youness!

Feature

Release note: better experience, better performance

This release is a big one! We took the time to rethink our user interface as well as greatly improve our backup scripts.

✅ Validation driven

You'll now be able to validate your server, storage and database connections right from the creation form in one single click.

✨ Interface improvements

Create your backups using our new wizard, it keeps things simple and make sure each step is validated before moving further.

🆘 In-app support

No more guessing, every error is now clearly explained and documented right from the app.

🛡️Security

We've improved security by switching to a much stronger SSH authentication method.

🏎️ Speed improvements & better resource management

We've been re-writing our scripts from the ground up. More security, better resources management and up-to 400% performance improvement.

▶️ Backup File Streaming improvements

Feature

🇪🇺 SimpleStorage EU Support

You can now choose to store your website and database backups on our European SimpleStorage datacenter to comply with your business requirements. This way your data stays home. Next stop, 🎰.

Feature

Backblaze Storage Support

💾 Backblaze Storage Support

It had been requested, and we've delivered!

We're now fully supporting Backblaze B2 Storage!

We've created a tutorial on how to get started with MySQL backup and store in on Backblaze.

Feature

Release Note 8

New features:

  • You can now copy & paste restore commands right from your backup log
  • Incremental file backup is now available (on request)
  • You can now request certain flags to be added to your database dump commands (on request)
  • If you are dumping your MongoDB backups from a replica, you don't have to do anything additional to allow dumps from replica, SimpleBackups handles it all
Improvement

Release Note 7

We're constantly working to improve your SimpleBackups experience, here's a summary of what has changed...

Improvements:

  • General UX improvements
  • Archive logs + ability to view archived logs
  • Application & backup performance boost
  • New Mysql, MongoDb and Postgres backup article

Fixes

  • Reduce the number of emails sent to users