Best Practices for Cloud Backup
Contents
Purpose of this Guide
Document Conventions
Key Concepts
Choosing What to Backup
Backup and Restore Best Practices
Backup Frequency
Effective Restores
Encryption: Costs and...
Rackspace Cloud Backup
Using Rackspace Cloud Backup for your Database
You can use Rackspace Cloud Backup to backup your database by following a few steps.
First, some background
Rackspace Cloud Backup backs up files, provided it...
Getting Started with Rackspace Cloud Backup - Part 6
Preferences
On the Preferences screen, you can determine how Cloud Backup notifies you about Backup activity on your Account.
Wait, didn't I do this already? When you created...
Getting Started with Rackspace Cloud Backup - Part 3
How to View Backup Information
On the last page, we discussed How to Create a Backup. Once your Backup is set up, you might want to confirm its settings, make sure a clean up...
Getting Started with Rackspace Cloud Backup - Part 2
If you have a Managed Cloud account and do not see your Server under Systems, check with your account manager to install the RCBU Agent.
Other users who do not see their Server...
Getting Started with Rackspace Cloud Backup - Overview
Overview
Rackspace Cloud Backup (RCBU) is a file-based backup application that lets you choose which files and folders to backup from your Cloud Server. You can choose to...
Getting Started with Rackspace Cloud Backup - Part 1
Install the Agent
If you have a Managed Cloud account, you may already have the agent installed on your server. You know you have the agent when you see your Cloud Server(s)...
The following article shows how to Generate your Encrypted Key in Cloud Backup.
Rackspace Cloud Backup already encrypts your passphrase locally on your browser using a javascript RSA library. This is before your passphrase is...