A guide to backups and snapshots
Backups and Snapshots are a feature on Scalable Cloud Servers, available to all clients at CloudCone. This guide will have complete instructions on how to get started with our backups and snapshots
Backups
- How to enable automatic backups?
- How to restore a backup or snapshot file?
- How to delete a backup or snapshot file?
- How to disable automatic backups?
Snapshots
- How to take a snapshot of my server?
- How to restore a backup or snapshot file?
- How to delete a backup or snapshot file?
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FAQ and Technical spec
Automatic backups take regular snapshots of your active file system. Since we do not stop your server to take a snapshot, booting from a backup is similar to rebooting after a non-graceful restart of your server.
While modern file systems and databases handle this scenario extremely well, you may want to take additional measures to guarantee a consistent state of your data when running very active and write intensive database-type systems. For example, with MySQL, you can set up a cron to run mysqldump to separate directory on the local file system.
- Backups are stored in the same datacenter where your server is located on
- Backups are stored in enterprise RAID 10 SAS storage nodes
- CloudCone backups are run on an isolated 10 Gbit network that shouldn't affect your server at a network level
- You can only restore snapshots or backups of the entire server, not individual files.
Updated on: 10/06/2021
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