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does your vps provider has vps level backup included?

I notice more and more providers are including some kind of backup solution into their LET vps dashboards. Some provide it even included for free or cheap less than 7$ per year.
I want to give kudos to Netcup, greencloud, Tierhive for including this standard.

Please comment and with your provider if they also include this service for LET prices.

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  • kuroitkuroit Member, Host Rep, Megathread Squad

    We just upgraded our backup system (three offsite locations now) and its included with every service even $7/yr ones :D

  • EthernetServersEthernetServers Member, Patron Provider

    Just started including them for no extra cost :) Daily with 7 days worth of restore points.

  • MainfrezzerMainfrezzer Member
    edited August 13

    Dartnode has, either backups or snapshots, I forgot already, lmao, included. Already made use of it because I did fuck up once and it restored it to a mint state. 🤣

    Edit: Its a snapup apparently, lmao

    Thanked by 1dbadude
  • @Mainfrezzer said:
    Dartnode has, either backups or snapshots, I forgot already, lmao, included. Already made use of it because I did fuck up once and it restored it to a mint state. 🤣

    Edit: Its a snapup apparently, lmao

    cool, only manual backups not scheduled. Anyway better than nothing!

  • HostMediaHostMedia Member, Patron Provider
    edited August 13

    All our VPS services have backups included for free, DEV series which is designed for non-production has a monthly backup (retention 1), our standard VPS series has weekly backup and retains for 4 weeks worth. All stored offsite and self-restore available.

    We are working on more options in the coming months :smile:

    You can get a DEV series IPv6 only VPS for £9/yr (ex VAT)

    Thanked by 2dbadude JohnFilch123
  • JabJabJabJab Veteran
    edited August 13

    Providers backup is not yours backup.

    You don't have a control over it. You have no idea how they implemented this. You have no idea when it works. You have no idea if this even works until you test it and try to restore weekly, monthly... daily?

    They got hacked and nuked? Cool, your backup is gone.
    You got hacked and someone clicks DELETE VPS (or Destroy for CloudCone clients :D) in your profile? Cool, your backup is gone.
    They got DDOS'ed for days and you want to "restore" your service to different provider? Cool, your backup is gone.

    This is not a backup.

    also fuck me, I fully expect 99.5% of providers on LET to be not ready to mass restore services after a catastrophic failure. It gonna take days to restore this over network/HDD speeds and bottlenecks. And not many providers have ability to just pack up server or drives and drive them from second location safely.

  • rpqurpqu Member

    @JabJab said:
    Provider backup is not a backup.

    You don't have a control over it. You have no idea how they implemented this. You have no idea when it works. You have no idea if this even works until you test it and try to restore weekly, monthly... daily?

    They got hacked and nuked? Cool, your backup is gone.
    You got hacked and someone clicks DELETE VPS (or Destroy for CloudCone clients :D) in your profile? Cool, your backup is gone.

    This is not a backup.

    Technically it's still a backup, but still a single point of failure

    Thanked by 1tof
  • JabJabJabJab Veteran

    @rpqu said: Technically it's still a backup, but still a single point of failure

    I've reworded first sentence to make it more clear what I am trying to say :-P

  • dbadudedbadude Member
    edited August 13

    @JabJab said:
    Providers backup is not yours backup.

    You don't have a control over it. You have no idea how they implemented this. You have no idea when it works. You have no idea if this even works until you test it and try to restore weekly, monthly... daily?

    They got hacked and nuked? Cool, your backup is gone.
    You got hacked and someone clicks DELETE VPS (or Destroy for CloudCone clients :D) in your profile? Cool, your backup is gone.
    They got DDOS'ed for days and you want to "restore" your service to different provider? Cool, your backup is gone.

    This is not a backup.

    also fuck me, I fully expect 99.5% of providers on LET to be not ready to mass restore services after a catastrophic failure. It gonna take days to restore this over network/HDD speeds and bottlenecks. And not many providers have ability to just pack up server or drives and drive them from second location safely.

    Yeah, but 99% of the time its something the user did wrong, so restoring it back to previous state is something very nice to have.

  • It have. But I never believe any service, only in my hand so alway 1 copy of data in my local homelab, one in some object storage service in case of my house on fire ;)

  • DimtarDimtar Member

    Onidel have a paid backup option that is very fairly priced imo.
    I find alot of operators are happy to provide snapshots but no scheduling system.

    Thanked by 1onidel
  • @vuanhson said:
    It have. But I never believe any service, only in my hand so alway 1 copy of data in my local homelab, one in some object storage service in case of my house on fire ;)

    I hope it's not ovh cause the chances are higher that's on fire 🤣

  • SharedGridSharedGrid Member, Host Rep

    We've always backed up customer VPS to an offsite location, daily backups with a 7 day retention.

  • CaliberNodeCaliberNode Member, Patron Provider
    edited August 13

    If you host managed apps with us we make backups of the backups of your Uptime Kuma.

    At least, that’s what the Assistant to the Regional Manager told me to do.

    Either way it's free and encrypted. However personally if it's my data I wouldn't just trust the hosts backups/snapshots please please make your own backups!

  • Free 5 backups with Oracle.

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