Enabling automated daily backups

The Daily Backups add-on ($12/mo) snapshots your entire server every night and keeps 7 days of history.

How it works

Backups are block-level snapshots taken at the hypervisor level — they capture your whole disk without installing any agent inside your server, and without downtime. Snapshots are stored on separate storage hardware in the same facility.

Enabling backups

You can add backups when requesting a server in the configurator, or later by opening a ticket — we enable it the same day, and the first snapshot runs the following night.

What's covered

Everything on your disk: operating system, applications, databases and files. Databases under heavy write load are best paired with an application-level dump (e.g. mysqldump) scheduled just before the nightly snapshot for guaranteed consistency:

0 2 * * * mysqldump --all-databases > /var/backups/db.sql

To restore, see Restoring from a snapshot.