SimpleBackups updates simplebackups.io

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.io/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

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

✨ New look

Thanks to all your feedback (special thanks to Jason) we've refreshed our UI with an easier navigation, less bloat and more consistency across all pages. This also paves the way for us to add more useful features down the road.

🎯 Quick actions & redesigned drop downs

We simplified the way to trigger any action and made it accessible from any listing as well as from the backup page.

📌 You now have a dashboard

Quickly access main sections, create backups, view last activity and get a quick view on your plan usage.​

🔎 Refreshed backup page

We've rebuilt this page from the ground up! All backup info with less click, and a clear action menu.