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Hetzner seems to allow 7 snapshots total [1]. That means you can keep 1 week of daily backups, or less than two months of weekly backups. Either way, it's usefu
by remram 3y ago
Hetzner seems to allow 7 snapshots total [1]. That means you can keep 1 week of daily backups, or less than two months of weekly backups. Either way, it's useful for the "server burned down" situation, but not really for the "can't find this file", "I want my previous config", or "this file got corrupted somehow" situations.
Obligatory Tao of Backup: http://taobackup.com/history.html http://taobackup.com/history.html
Also 20% of your server's total cost seems pricey.
[1]: https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/getting-started/enabling-backups/ https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/getting-started/enabl...
- NicoJuicy 3y ago20% of a 7,74€/m. vps ( currently) is not a big deal. As far as I'm aware, 20% seems to be the default ( reference: digital ocean). It's very rare that I would need a server backup older than 7 days in practice. Because I backup my data a month. It could be better if it remained 1 backup per month though ( eg. In Sunday)
- remram 3y agoIt's very rare that you'll need a backup at all, when you do something bad and unknown has happened, and you can't be sure that it happened within 7 days of when you noticed. 7 days is also within the period of time people can be on vacation. It's way too short.
- NicoJuicy 3y agoI mostly use backup and restore functionally outside of office hours as a precaution with a limited amount of time. Take a backup, migrate, test and restore, if required. For the rare cases that I needed it, it's been worth it.