Backups & snapshots

Automated daily backups and on-demand snapshots, stored in a second region.

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Backups vs. snapshots#

BackupsSnapshots
CreatedAutomatically on a scheduleManually or via API
StoredIn a second regionIn the same region
Retention7–90 daysUntil deleted
Price+20% of the server price€0.02 per GB-month

Configure a policy#

Shell
avenlith backup policy set web-01 --daily 03:00 --retain 14
avenlith snapshot create web-01 --name before-upgrade
avenlith snapshot restore web-01 --snapshot before-upgrade

Backups are crash-consistent. For databases, enable the pre-backup hook to flush tables or use native tools such as pg_dump.

Restore to a new server#

You can restore any backup into a new server in a different region — useful for disaster-recovery drills and for cloning production into staging.

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