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Automatic Backups - How many copies are saved?
- Posted March 17, 2013
Some questions about automatic backups:
- It’s the same as snapshot, but without shutting down the server?
- How many copies are saved? One for daily? Another for Weekly? Another Monthly? My previous hosting saved weekly and monthly copies (2 copies).
Thank you.
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@bruno: I’m not sure I understand what you mean, are you asking why does a snapshot require the droplet to be powered off?
why?
From what I gather, the backups are done when the system gets around to doing it, there is no fixed time. <br> <br>I would like to know what is the difference between a snapshot (that requires a shutdown) and a backup (that doesn’t) - why does a snapshot require a shutdown?
so that’s 3 total? These are VM snapshots?
@raiyu can we know when is daily backup triggered ? <br> <br>ty.