Backups
Daily backups of your server's disk, kept away from the server and encrypted.
Built, not open to the public yet
This feature is built and has been tested against simulated hosts and a test database. It has not yet been proven on real hardware, and nothing here can be ordered today.
Not there yet
- Not yet run on real hardware. The off-site copy depends on the storage provider chosen.
The Backups addon
Automatic and on-demand backups are an addon you turn on for each server. The panel shows its price before you pay. It is the greater of a monthly minimum and a share of the server plan's price, both set by Vexelia. Turning it on charges the rest of the period you have paid for; the next renewal bills it as its own line. Turning it off keeps it working until the end of the paid period. Restoring and listing existing backups do not need the addon.
Schedule
Backups run once a day inside a window you choose, in the time zone you choose, on the days you allow. By default the last 7 ready backups are kept. A suspended server's schedule pauses and resumes at the first window after it is active again. You can also take a backup at any time.
A backup counts as ready only after it has been read back and checked. Backups the node could not finish, or whose stored data failed its check, are never restored from. A backup is application-consistent when the guest agent could freeze the disk, and crash-consistent otherwise.
Restoring
- Over the same server. The backup replaces the server's first disk. The server is stopped, its disk swapped and started again. The old disk is kept on the host for 72 hours. A restore needs a recent password check and the server's hostname typed in.
- Into a new server. Build a new server from a backup and leave the original alone.
- To a point in time. Give a time and the panel finds the newest ready backup at or before it, and tells you the time that backup really holds. Points between backups cannot be restored.
The node checks the whole backup before it touches the disk. A damaged backup is refused and the server stays as it was.
Off-site copy
Where it is available, the panel offers a weekly encrypted copy of the primary disk with a second storage provider. The panel shows whether it is on and when it last ran.
What backups are not
Backups cover the disks you choose, not data inside a running database that you have not made consistent. Test a restore before you need one.