Where are snapshots and backup images saved?

November 24, 2013 4.6k views
marveller
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Are they saved in a different location like Amazon S3 away from DO? I am asking this because in the beginning of this year, my image was lost in DO due to server HD failure at the time, hoping that won't happen again. Thank you.
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pablo November 24, 2013
You can save your own snapshot on S3 or locally with duplicity. See duplicity-backup | GitHub and/or How To Use Duplicity with GPG to Securely Automate Backups on Ubuntu | DigitalOcean.
How To Use Duplicity with GPG to Securely Automate Backups on Ubuntu
by Justin Ellingwood
Duplicity is a simple backup solution that can be used to backup data from a VPS instance to another VPS or a local machine. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install duplicity on Ubuntu and configure it to perform automated backups.
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kamaln7 MOD November 27, 2013
Please see https://www.digitalocean.com/blog_posts/snapshot-and-backup-roadmap.

All images will be hosted on Amazon Glacier as well for added redundancy.
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