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Cloud server backup options
Posted: March 26th, 2018
Openstack Cloud servers have two backup options; Volume Snapshots and Dedicated R1Soft backup servers.
What are Volume Snapshots?
A volume snapshot is a full copy of a virtual machine's volume (with its data) at the time the snapshot was taken. The volume is the hard drive of a virtual machine. They can be used for:
> Horizontal scaling: Rapid deployment of multiple cloud servers based on existing "golden" volumes.
> Full bare metal backup: A cloud server can be created from an existing volume snapshot in order to extract backed up data.
> Volume parking: A snapshot can be created before deleting a cloud server to keep data without paying for a cloud server.
Backing up a Cloud server on a dedicated backup server
Dedicated R1Soft backup solutions are available for all of our Cloud packages.
Please refer to the following link for more details on dedicated Idera/R1Soft backup servers: Deploying a dedicated backup server (R1Soft)
At the time of your dedicated backup server purchase, the Technical Support team will ask if your Cloud server(s) should be configured to the backup server. Contact our Support team for all subsequent servers to be backed up, or follow these instructions on installing and configuring the backup agent:
> Windows