Backups

The nightly backup

We back up every Xeon VPS every night as an image of the whole disk and keep the last 7 days. You do not need to switch anything on.

Getting a backup back

1. Open your VPS in the dashboard and choose the Backups tab.
2. Under Point in time, pick the day you want to go back to.
3. Add a Message if needed, e.g. if you only want one folder back.
4. Click Request a restore.

This creates a ticket. We reply there before we reset the server, because everything changed after the chosen point is lost.

Back up yourself

A backup on the same server does not help you if the server is gone. Store the backup elsewhere: on your computer, a second server or storage reachable over SFTP or S3.

What to back up:

• your application data, e.g. /home, /srv, /var/www, game worlds
• databases as a dump, not as live files (see MariaDB)
• configuration under /etc, especially what you changed yourself
• with Docker: the volumes and the Compose files

To start, a copy to your computer is enough:

rsync -avz root@YOUR-IPV4:/srv/ ./server-backup/srv/

Regular, encrypted and with several versions works with a backup program. How: Setting up backups. You can run it automatically every night with a cron job.

Check that the backup is usable

A backup only counts once you can restore it. Now and then restore one as a test, e.g. into an empty folder, and check that the files are complete.

We answer questions about this in a ticket.