User Guide

Server & Volume Snapshots

Check out our Server and Volumes Snapshots page to see how it works, what providers we currently support, and step by step guides.

File Backup

Check out our "Create a file backup (opens new window)" to give you a good starting point to backup any website using SimpleBackups.

Database Backup

We've prepared guides for each supported databases. In each of these guides you'll also find reference to a guide explaining how to store these database backups to any storage provider.

• MongoDB guide
• MySQL guide
• PostgreSQL guide
• Amazon RDS guide

Backup your "database as a service" database

Need to backup a database not hosted on a "dedicated server" (think DigitalOcean managed database, Amazon RDS...)? Use our "Stand-alone Database Backup Server".

Custom backups flags

More information here: Custom database backup flags

Restore a backup

You can restore your backup from any point in time using our restore commands.

• Head to the logs tab of your backup page (https://my.simplebackups.com/backup/BACKUP_ID#logs).
• Select the backup log you want to restore and click on the "i" icon
• A popup will open, will how to restore this backup