How many backups do I get with Linode Backup Service?
Linode
Linode Staff
How many backups do I get with the Linode Backup Service? Can I restore from every daily backup?
2 Replies
One daily, two weekly's, and one manual snapshot. You can choose the day of the week the weekly backup runs.
You can choose to restore from any of those backups. I highly recommend you also do offsite backups.
Evin
Linode Staff
Linode Backup Types
When you enable Linode Backup Services, you have access to 4 different types of file-level backups: a manual Snapshot, a daily-automated backup, and two weekly-automated backups.
Manual Snapshot:
This is a user-initiated process that makes a copy of your data and preserves it until you decide to overwrite it with a new Snapshot.
Daily Automated Backup:
This is automatically initiated daily within the backup window you select. This will last for 24 hours and then will be deleted once a new daily Backup has successfully completed.
Weekly Automated Backup #1 (from 1-7 days ago):
This is automatically initiated weekly within the backup window, on the day you select. After 7 days, this will become Weekly Backup #2 and a new Weekly Backup #1 will be created.
Weekly Automated Backup #2 (from 8-14 days ago):
This will be replaced by the the preceding week's backup after 7 days.
Please be aware of the following:
All Backups for a Linode will be deleted if you delete the Linode or disable the Backup Services for that Linode.
Once a backup has been overwritten, it will no longer be available.