Backups overview

SimpleDeploy backups have three pieces:

• Strategy what to back up: a database dump (postgres, mysql, mongo, redis, sqlite) or a volume tarball.
• Target where to store it: local filesystem or any S3-compatible bucket.
• Schedule + retention when it runs (cron) and how many copies to keep.

Configure backups via the UI Backup wizard (recommended) or the REST API.

Quick example

Local backups

No extra config needed. Backups stored at {data_dir}/backups/.

S3 backups

Configure via the API or UI. The S3 target config:

{
  "endpoint": "s3.amazonaws.com",
  "bucket": "my-backups",
  "prefix": "simpledeploy/",
  "access_key": "AKIA...",
  "secret_key": "...",
  "region": "us-east-1"
}

Works with AWS S3, MinIO, Cloudflare R2, and any S3-compatible storage.

Per-strategy guides

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL / MariaDB
• MongoDB
• Redis
• SQLite
• Volume snapshots

Targets

• S3 target
• Local target

Operations

• Retention and scheduling
• Restore
• System database backup

Architecture

For a developer-oriented walkthrough of strategies and targets, see Backup architecture.