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DigitalOcean on SimpleBackups

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All-in-one backup automation tool. Droplet file backups, snapshots, database backups, and DO Spaces bucket sync and replication.

<p><strong><a href="https://simplebackups.com/?ref=do-addon">SimpleBackups</a></strong> automates all backups, snapshots, and cloud storage replication in a simple, secure, beautiful dashboard. You can use our API feature to take this automation further and manage backups from your own infrastructure.</p>
<p>You can set a custom schedule for your backups (<strong>file, database, snapshots</strong>) or <strong>cloud storage sync/replication</strong> jobs and they will be taken automatically for you, and securely stored on your own storage cloud storage or mounted volume. Backups can be encrypted via <strong>AES-256</strong> using your own public key to ensure that no one else can read them.</p>
<p>SimpleBackups instantly notifies you when backups fail via Email, Webhooks, Slack, and/or Discord.</p>
<h3 id="database-backups">Database Backups</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis</strong> (self-hosted or Managed DigitalOcean Databases)</li>
<li>Zero-config DigitalOcean Managed Database Backups</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="cloud-storage-replicationsync">Cloud Storage Replication/Sync</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sync and replicate DigitalOcean Spaces buckets from or to Dropbox, S3, Wasabi, Backblaze, etc - Supports object-locked storage</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="server--volume-snapshots">Server &amp; Volume Snapshots</h3>
<ul>
<li>DigitalOcean droplets, and volumes supported plus many other providers</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="droplet-file-backups">Droplet File Backups</h3>
<ul>
<li>Incremental file backups</li>
<li>Flat file backups or files/directories or mounted volumes</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="feedback-from-some-of-our-users">Feedback from some of our users:</h4>
<blockquote>
  <p>Very simple to set up, excellent GUI, and excellent customer service. I recommend SimpleBackups to all sysadmins, developers, webmasters, and DevOps.</p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
  <p>Simplebackups has been a great tool for our web development company. We currently have over 200 backups setup across 60 different webservers - all running automated backups! The support team has been great, I highly recommend Simplebackups!</p>
</blockquote>
<h4 id="zero-config-digitalocean-managed-database-backups">Zero-config DigitalOcean Managed Database Backups</h4>
<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.wasabisys.com/sb-public-assets/media/SimpleBackups-DigitalOcean-Zero-Config-Opt.gif" alt="DigitalOcean Zero-config Backups"></p>

1 daily backup + snapshot, or 1 cloud sync.

# of Jobs (backup, sync, snapshots)

Included SimpleStorage (EU or US)

Included Serverless Data Transfer 

Team Members

Projects

Bring your own Storage

Backup Intervals

Backup Encryption

Cron Syntax Scheduling

Backup Streaming

Incremental File Backups

Instant Email Notifications

Advanced Notifications (Slack, Discord, Push)

MySQL Binlog Backups

Uncompressed Database Backups

Custom Backup Flags

Pre & Post-Backup Scripts

Backup Triggers

Webhooks

Backup Automation API

For automating backups with minimal needs

For teams that need higher level of flexibility for their backups.

For advanced backup automation and need for scale

For large-scale backup automation with premium storage and data transfer limits

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