Cloud snapshots
Take, schedule and restore snapshots on DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and know what they don't cover.
DigitalOcean snapshots: take, restore and automate Droplet snapshots
Take a Droplet snapshot in the control panel or with doctl, restore it in place or to a new Droplet, and automate snapshots with cron and a retention count.
9 min readHetzner Cloud snapshots: create, restore and automate with hcloud
Create Hetzner Cloud snapshots in the Console or with hcloud, label and describe them, rebuild or clone a server from one, and rotate them on a schedule.
8 min readVultr snapshots: create, restore and automate with vultr-cli
Take Vultr snapshots in the customer portal, with vultr-cli or API v2, restore them to the same or a new instance, and rotate them on a schedule.
7 min readLinode backups and snapshots on Akamai Cloud: enable, snapshot and restore
Enable the Linode Backups service, take a manual snapshot in Cloud Manager or with linode-cli, and restore it to the same Linode or a new one.
7 min readHow to back up EC2 instances with EBS snapshots and AMIs
Take EBS snapshots and AMIs from the console and the AWS CLI, schedule them with Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager, copy them to another Region, and restore a volume, a root disk or a whole instance.
9 min readHow to back up Amazon Lightsail instances with snapshots
Take manual Lightsail snapshots, turn on automatic daily snapshots and set their time, restore to a new or bigger instance, copy to another Region and export to EC2, from the console and the AWS CLI.
7 min readHow to back up Google Compute Engine disks with snapshots
Create standard, archive and instant snapshots with the console and gcloud, schedule them with snapshot schedules, choose where they are stored, and restore a disk or a whole VM.
8 min readHow to back up Azure VMs with disk snapshots and Azure Backup
Create full and incremental managed disk snapshots with the portal and the Azure CLI, copy them to another region, restore a disk or a VM, and schedule VM backups with Azure Backup policies.
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