As of today, we here at VPSBG are happy to announce our new feature - backups! You can now safely use either method to securely restore your servers regardless of the purpose!
Manual Backups - free of charge
Manual backups are a ‘picture’ of your system files, software, applications and settings that has been captured at a certain point in time. Stored in the same location as your original data, they take time to copy your server data at a specific moment, allowing you to quickly restore the server to its recently captured state. Do you need to carry out an important update but you are afraid of something breaking in the process?
Our manual backup feature is the perfect solution for both developing and testing, allowing you to easily and swiftly roll back your server if anything goes wrong! Furthermore, you can also restore your manual backup to any of your other servers, making the process of cloning one server to another possible. Do you need to download a given manual backup? No problem - just press the “Download” button.
Not only are manual backups a great way to restore your data, but our manual backups are also completely free! However, there are some additional limitations. As of now you can take only 1 manual backup per server with a total of 5 manual backups per account and a maximum of 3 manual backups per day.
Server Automatic Weekly Backups
If perhaps you need to store your server data in a safe location for a longer period of time, then you can utilize our new backup feature instead! Backups are a fantastic way to restore the entirety of the file system in the cases of malware infestation, total system failure or faulty updates.
Unlike manual backup, automatic backups are a paid feature and they are sold as a server add-on named “Automatic backups” or in the case of weekly automatically conducted backups - “Weekly automatic server backups”. Backups can be activated even if you already have a server with us and the price is 0.10 EUR (excluding VAT) per GB of the server plan. As an example, if your current plan has 30GB NVMe storage, this makes the price of the backup feature 3 EUR per month. We keep a maximum of 3 backups, meaning that the oldest backup you would have will be 3 weeks old.
Furthermore, it is also important to note that booting from a backup is similar to a reboot after a non-graceful shutdown, which can potentially cause issues with some applications if they have very disk-heavy usage.
Manual vs Automatic Backups
Even though both offer you a way to restore file and system information, they each have their separate purposes. The table below depicts the comparison between the two.
| Manual Backup | Backup | |
|---|---|---|
| Saved for | Each manual backup of a server replaces the previous manual backup for the very same server | Maximum of 3 backups, weekly backup, the oldest backup is 3 weeks old |
| Cost | Free | 0.10 EUR (excluding VAT) per GB of your plan |
| Limitations | 1 manual backup per server, 5 manual backups per account, 3 manual backups per day | Paid |
| Ideal for | Developing and testing; quick system roll-back, cloning of a server | Long-term storage and security, can recover from system failure, malware, etc. |
Amazing. How can I use these new features?
In order for you to make the most of our new features we have prepared a list of useful links from our documentation that you can benefit from:
How to take a manual backup of my server?
