What's new?

What's New

• Restore encrypted Notion backups: Encrypted Notion backups can now be restored end to end. Your archive is decrypted at restore time using your private key, which is never stored and is discarded immediately after use.
• Back up your Notion people directory (optional, off by default): Capture your workspace's member directory as an access audit trail and to help resolve "assigned to" and "created by" fields. Note this is backup-only, since Notion's API cannot recreate users on restore.

Notion Backups

• Formulas and relations survive a restore: Formula properties no longer come back empty, and relations to databases that were also backed up now relink correctly instead of silently dropping.
• A clearer restore page: Removed a redundant "choose your restore method" step, added a plain-language note that restoring never overwrites your existing workspace, and turned the confusing empty state into an actual checklist with copy and refresh actions.
• Handles unsupported blocks gracefully: A single unsupported block (such as an AI block) no longer causes an entire page of content to be dropped. Everything around it is preserved.
• Comment backups fixed: Notion comment backups were silently failing. They now capture correctly, and the backup counters no longer report "0 backed up" on runs that actually succeeded.
• Handles complex workspaces: Workspaces with circular page and database references no longer cause a backup to crash. Cycles are detected and skipped mid-run.
• Clearer backup logs: The Content tab now uses plain labels, groups failures by whether they will auto-retry or need your attention, shows humanized messages instead of raw errors, and separates issues on our end from ones you need to act on.
• Steadier long runs: Better handling of long Notion backups jobs, allowing better logging of large Workspace backups.
• Smoother OAuth: Connecting Notion no longer leaves you stranded on a dead tab when Notion hands off to its desktop app, which also resolves duplicate connections.

Databases

• One file per database restored: MySQL all-databases backups again produce one file per database (matching previous behaviour), so you can restore a single database instead of the whole set. Backups from the affected window are migrated automatically.
• Managed MySQL support: On managed providers like DigitalOcean, all-databases backups now fall back gracefully when the database user cannot read system schemas, instead of failing.
• Postgres in search: PostgreSQL now appears when you search for it in the backup source picker.
• Post-command scripts always run: Scripts that should run after a backup now run even when the backup fails partway through, so steps like resuming Postgres WAL replay aren't left hanging.

Backups & Reliability

• Clearer snapshot errors: Cloud provider snapshot failures now show the actual reason from Linode, Vultr, or Scaleway instead of a generic code.
• Stale locks release automatically: Improved locks release mechanisms.
• Reliable Scaleway listings: Snapshot, volume, and database listings improved.
• Google Cloud Storage guidance: Added inline guidance for GCS buckets added through the S3-compatible provider, pointing you to Fine-grained access or the native GCS provider.
• More accurate anomaly notifications: Small backup folders no longer show as "0 B" in anomaly notifications.

Billing & Interface

• Payment method fixes: Card-free payment methods such as Link and SEPA no longer make a successful setup look like a failure.
• Clearer upgrades: The upgrade dialog now highlights which plan to pick instead of leaving it ambiguous.
• Team Reports permissions: Reports are now restricted to admins and owners.

What's New

• Back up Notion Databases and Datasources: You can now add Notion Databases and Datasources as a dedicated backup source, keeping that workspace content in sync alongside everything else you protect.

Notion Backups

• Cleaner restores from mounted volumes: Notion recipe backups no longer bury your export inside a deep folder path. Restores land cleanly, with no nested folders to dig through.
• Small backups are no longer flagged as failures: Genuinely small Notion backups were sometimes rejected with a "suspiciously small" warning even when the content was valid. The threshold now accounts for legitimately small workspaces.

Backups & Reliability

• Fewer redundant retries: Backups that are paused or locked no longer kick off extra retry attempts after the first run.
• Accurate usage after deleting a project: Removing a project now updates your plan usage right away, so limits stay correct.
• More reliable snapshots: Resolved issue affecting Outscale and Scaleway snapshot backups.
• Supabase backups: Fixed backups failing with an authentication error after reconnecting, and Supabase discovery no longer gets stuck on "scanning" if a background job stops. Pooler connection strings are now caught up front with a one-click switch to the required direct connection string, instead of passing validation and then failing at backup time.
• PlanetScale (Vitess): Backup streaming is now disabled where it isn't supported, preventing a confusing runtime error.
• Managed MySQL: Fixed database listing issues for certain OVH-managed MySQL setups.
• Truthful backup reports: Reports no longer count logs from a failed first attempt when a later retry succeeded, so your numbers reflect what actually happened.

Storage

• Object Lock buckets: Storage validation no longer attempts to delete test files on immutable (Object Lock) buckets, which was causing valid connections to fail validation.
• Storage settings accuracy: The storage edit form now correctly reflects the "Read-only" and "Object Locked" states.
• DigitalOcean Spaces: Documented cold-storage buckets specific rules on filenames with special characters, along with recommended workarounds.

Billing & Teams

• Team admins can manage billing: Admins can now handle the subscription, payment method, invoices, and plan changes. Cancellation stays owner-only for safety.
• Add-on fixes: Removing an add-on on a yearly plan no longer affects unrelated usage limits, and the plan auditor now expands add-ons correctly so backups aren't locked unnecessarily.

Interface & Performance

• Faster pages: Improved performances of several pages and polished the dashboard.
• Richer notifications: Stack resource notifications now include the same team, user, and plan context used across other notifications.

Setting up your first backup is now faster and more intuitive with a redesigned creation flow.

• Guided platform selection — a new UI element walks you through choosing your platform (databases, servers, storage, or apps) so you always start in the right place.
• All backup options at a glance — available backup types for your selected platform are surfaced upfront, making it easier to pick the right setup without guesswork.
• Smoother onboarding experience — new users are guided step by step through the entire configuration, reducing setup time and getting your first backup running in minutes.

• Smoother full backup setup — Creating full backups is now more reliable, with improved validation for schedule retention settings and excluded path formats in Laravel stack backups.

• More reliable PostgreSQL connections over SSH — PostgreSQL backups using SSH tunnels now correctly route all traffic through the tunnel, ensuring your database connections stay secure and consistent.

• Upgraded interface experience — The yearly toggle in the upgrade flow is now fully responsive, long team names display cleanly in the navigation, the usage modal loads with a smooth skeleton animation, and pricing details in the upgrade popup are now accurate.

• More accurate Dropbox backup reporting — Dropbox backups now report upload results more accurately, so you always know the true status of your backups. Snapshot error messages are also clearer for easier troubleshooting.

• Improved documentation — Links across the docs have been updated, and required GitHub permissions are now clearly documented.

• Better notification delivery — Notifications for high-volume accounts are now more reliable, and backup file recovery has been improved.

• Enhanced team management — Reassigning resources between team members is now smoother.

Stack Discovery is now live. Connect your infrastructure — a VPS, a Kubernetes cluster, or a cloud provider — and SimpleBackups automatically detects every database, storage bucket, and resource that needs backing up.

Learn more in the Stack Discovery blog post or check the Stack documentation.

Fixes & Improvements

• Database validation consistency — Fixed an issue where database port validation wasn't consistent between the validation step and form submission. Both now check the same fields.

• Server connection error messages — Cleaned up confusing error messages in the server connection flow. No more generic "Connection Error" text when validation fails.

• Custom cron schedule parsing — Fixed crashes when using complex cron expressions like 0 9-23,0-6 * * *. The scheduler now handles these edge cases properly.

• GitLab backup shortcut — Fixed the GitLab shortcut in backup configuration that was opening the old legacy form instead of the current flow.

• Backup creation in-app messages — Cleaned up duplicate success messages that appeared when creating backups within stacks. You'll now see the right message at the right time.

• Recipe backup notifications — Fixed an issue where manual recipe runs showed both "Backup dispatched" and "Initiating backup" messages at the same time.

• Health check progress state — Resolved cases where backup sync jobs got stuck in "progress" state, particularly for accounts hitting object count limits.

• Stack UI improvements — Various design and UX improvements to the stack interface.

Full Backup is back — revamped and ready. You can now create a single backup that bundles both your file or server backup together with your database backup, all in one job.

This is especially useful for website and application backups, where your project lives in two places at once: the files powering the app and the database behind it. Instead of juggling separate jobs, Full Backup captures both sides of your project together.

Set it up from your dashboard when creating a new backup, and choose which files, server, and database to include in the bundle.

Learn more about Full Backup in our documentation.

Fixes & Improvements

• Fixed MongoDB backup validation — The DB name field wasn't showing in the form, preventing MongoDB backup setup. Fixed.
• Improved GitHub repository display — Better visual styling and color layout for GitHub recipe content views.
• Optimistic UI updates for toggles — Async toggles and checkboxes now respond immediately instead of waiting for server confirmation.
• Fixed PostgreSQL v2 multi-file display — PostgreSQL v2 backups now properly show multiple files instead of treating them as one.
• Server deletion protection — Added validation to prevent deleting servers that are actively used in stacks.
• Fixed storage limit display — Own storage no longer incorrectly shows a 200GB limit.
• Fixed pod selection on server switch — Previously selected pods now properly reset when switching servers.
• Improved form fields UX — now show a loading spinner while validation runs in the background.

We've redesigned team roles to give you clearer, more predictable permissions across your team.

From 3 roles to 4 clear roles -- we've restructured the role hierarchy to better match how teams actually work. The old Editor role is gone, and every role now has a well-defined scope.

For full details, check the Teams, Projects & Users documentation.

Documentation is now integrated directly into our development workflow. Our docs have been fully reviewed and updated. No more outdated guides - when we build something, the docs update themselves.

Available at simplebackups.com/docs with better search and navigation.

New integration: Tadabase.io backups.

You can now connect your Tadabase databases and set up automated backups just like any other data source. Popular request from agencies managing client databases on the platform.

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.

Anomaly Detection V2 is now live — a major upgrade to how SimpleBackups monitors your backups.

• Automatic pattern monitoring — the system tracks your backup patterns and flags unusual changes, like sudden size drops that might indicate missing data or corruption.
• Smarter alerts — get notified when backups deviate significantly from their normal behavior, so you catch issues before they become problems.
• Log file size monitoring — backup log sizes are now tracked to detect anomalies earlier in the process.

SimpleStorage now works in multi-storage setups — use it as your primary storage or as a safety net with replication alongside your existing storage.

When you configure backups without SimpleStorage, we'll suggest adding it as redundancy. No more choosing between convenience and redundancy.

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.

Australia region is now live. You can now use our serverless instance from our Australia data center for faster performance and data residency compliance in the Asia-Pacific region.

Full support for all backup types (database, storage and application).

Postgres V2 backup engine is now available to all users. This new engine offers improved performance, better handling of large databases, and more reliable incremental backups.

Existing Postgres backups will continue working — you can migrate to V2 through your backup settings when ready.

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.

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.

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

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.

• 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

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

⚡ 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

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

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

🧠 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.

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.

✅ MariaDB latest version support released

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

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

- 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

✅ 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

- 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

We've released a Feedback form allowing all users to request new features and improvements.

https://simplebackups.com/feedback

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.

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

The 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 it communicate with SimpleBackups.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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".

You can now use your CEPH S3 Compatible storage in SimpleBackups!

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

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

We've been supporting AWS backups for a while now, and will now make it even easier for AWS user to setup their backups.

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

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

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.

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!

You can now restore your Notion Backup to any Notion account.

⚡️ 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.

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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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

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...).

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Connect your PlanetScale account using OAuth and select the database(s) you want to backup in just a few clicks.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

Optimization in backup handling and "stages" information displayed on your backup.

You can now back up your Neon.tech PostgreSQL database. Find out more on our documentation.

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).

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

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

Find out more about it on our announcement: https://simplebackups.com/blog/elevating-security-quality-simplebackups-iso-certification/

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

Introducing SimpleRestore: Our Solution to Simplify MySQL Database Restoration

Find out more about this launch on: https://simplebackups.com/blog/introducing-simplerestore-our-solution-to-simplify-mysql-database-restoration/

Start restoring your backups in a click: https://simplerestore.io/

Backup your PlanetScale MySQL database in no-time with our new integration.

Find our how to get started in our blog post: "How to create a PlanetScale database backup"

Automate all your OutScale backups with our new integration.

✅ File Backups

✅ Server Snapshots

✅ Storage Backups

✅ Store your backups on Outscale Object Storage

You can now have your DigitalOcean Snapshots stored on multiple regions at the same time.

It supports all regions offered by DigitalOcean.

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!

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!

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

[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.

You can now backup your Gitea data using SimpleBackups.

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

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

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

Introducing the easiest and quickest way to way to create cloud snapshots of your Linode instances.

[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

[Fix]

Fixed an issue where some Knack backups fail when the object is empty.

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

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

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

Previously, TLS/SSL was just preferred and used whenever possible. Now you can also explicitly choose the TLS/SSL encryption mode, enforce it, and upload your database certificates for verification.

Works with MongoDB, MySQL, Postgres, and Redis.

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

MySQL binlog backup now works with SimpleBackups serverless.

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

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

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! 😎

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

Get automatically notified if we suspect a backup to be invalid.

Amazon Lightsail is now a supported snapshot provider, allowing you to:

• Automate Lightsail instance snapshots (includes attached disks as well)
• Automate Lightsail disk snapshots individually

Check out our step-by-step guide on how to Automate Amazon Lightsail Snapshots.

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.

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.

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).

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 😉.

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 🤘.

You can now use Google Drive to store your backups.

Incremental MySQL backup now fully supports remote servers including RDS and other managed services.

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

You can now:

✅ Backup Scaleway servers (which include all attached volumes automatically)

✅ Backup Scaleway volumes individually

💡 We've also created a step-by-step guide to help you create your first Scaleway backup.

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.

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).

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

You can now synchronize Cloud Storage across providers.

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.

Connect unlimited notification channels (email, slack, discord, pushover, webhooks) to your team and configure when you want to be notified.

Want to know more? Check our blog post explaining how to get started.

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

You can now select to back up all databases on your MongoDB server at once, in a single backup job.

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.

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.

Get a summary of your backups delivered every week (or month) right in your mailbox!

Go to your Settings/Reports page and enable it, now!

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.

You can now select multiple databases via our smart field. You'll see the list of all available databases on your server.

Read more about it.

We've added support to AWS as a new Snapshot Provider.

Find more about it here:

• Automated AWS EC2 and volume snapshots

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

We have added support to 2 new providers!

You can now also store your backups on:

• UpCloud Object Storage
• Exoscale Cloud Storage

You can now connect your Upcloud account and schedule snapshots for your storage in just a few clicks!

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

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

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.

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.

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

You can now connect your Exoscale a Vultr account and schedule snapshots of your servers in just a few clicks.

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.com/settings

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

[Fix]

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

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

We currently support:

• DigitalOcean Server and Volume Snapshots
• Hetzner Server and Volume Snapshots

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

💾 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).

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

You can enable it from your account menu:

🤝 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!

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

Your backups on Azure Blob Storage are now fully supported.

Generate your access key, bring your Azure Blob Storage container, and dive in!

You can also check:

• Our tutorial to back up MySQL to Azure Blob Storage
• Or PostgreSQL to Azure Blob Storage
• And MongoDB to Azure Blob Storage

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, 🎰.

It's done! Import up to 100 DigitalOcean Droplets to SimpleBackups at a time to create DigitalOcean server backups.

Filebase Storage is now fully supported as a storage provider for your backups.

Bring your Filebase bucket and Filebase credential then dive in.

💾 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.

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

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