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Included backup offers

IllusionCloud's VPS plans include automated backups to protect your data from accidental deletion, hardware failure or corruption. This page explains what backups are included with your plan and what optional upgrades are available.

  • Standard automatic backups
    - Daily snapshots: Each server's system disk is automatically backed up once every 24 hours.
    - Seven-day retention: The control panel retains up to seven daily restore points; you can choose one of these restore points to roll back your VPS to a previous state.
    - Included with your plan: Daily automatic backups are a free feature of VPS plans; there is no extra charge and you can restore your VPS with a few clicks via the management portal.

Premium and optional backup features
- Premium automatic backup: Some plans allow you to restore from snapshots up to a week old or store backups in secure external storage. This is useful if you need longer retention or off-site redundancy.
- On-demand snapshots: You can manually take snapshots to capture the exact state of your server before performing updates or major changes. Snapshots are instant and can be created and restored at any time.
- External storage or cloud backup: If your application stores large amounts of data or includes additional disks, consider using external storage or cloud backup. These backups replicate data to a separate, secure space so that you can recover it even if the primary server fails.

How the backup process works
- Scheduling: The system takes a snapshot of your VPS once per day. The snapshot includes the system disk and configuration data but not optional additional disks or external storage.
- Replication: Each backup is replicated multiple times within the same data centre to protect against hardware failure and is also replicated to a secondary data centre for geographic redundancy.
- Restoration: You can restore your VPS to any of the available restore points via the management portal. When you restore from a backup, the current state of your VPS is replaced by the selected restore point.

Self-managed backups (for dedicated servers or advanced users)
- For dedicated servers or servers with large data sets, you should implement your own backup strategy using tools like rsnapshot, BorgBackup or duplicity.
- Consider storing backups on off-site object storage or IllusionCloud Cloud Storage for additional protection.
- Use a combination of daily incremental and periodic full backups, and test your restores regularly.

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