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Automated Backups

Last updated 2 April 2026

Overview

AFRICLOUD offers two ways to protect your data: automated backups and on-demand snapshots.

Snapshots

Snapshots capture the exact state of your server at a point in time.

Creating a Snapshot

  1. Go to Compute and select your server
  2. Click the Snapshots tab
  3. Enter a name and click Create Snapshot

Snapshots are taken with filesystem freezing for consistency (on supported OS). You can keep up to 5 snapshots per server.

Restoring from a Snapshot

Select a snapshot and click Restore. The server will be reverted to the snapshot state. This overwrites the current disk.

Automated Backups

Enable automated backups on any server for an additional 20% of the server cost:

  1. Go to your server's detail page
  2. Click Enable Backups
  3. Backups run daily and are retained for 3 days

Backups are stored on a separate backup server (Proxmox Backup Server), isolated from your main storage.

Best Practices

  • Take a snapshot before major changes — OS upgrades, configuration changes, or deployments
  • Enable automated backups for production servers
  • Test your restores periodically to ensure backups work
  • Keep external backups for critical data (e.g. database dumps to object storage)