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
Update the Agent
We regularly release updates to the Rackspace Cloud Backup Agent around every two weeks. Managed Cloud account customers have their agent updated automatically when the new version is...
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CHALLENGES: Excessive downtime and lack of support from previous provider RACKSPACE SOLUTION: Dedicated servers, managed backup, firewalls, and Fanatical...
The Rackspace Cloud makes backups of your data on a nightly basis. However, its purpose is for disaster recovery on the server side. If for any reason a storage node on our side were to crash, our backups will be there to replace...
NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Control Panel. A version of this article is also available for our New Cloud Control Panel.
Now that you know how to Create a New Server, this article will show you how you can...
NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Control Panel. A version of this article is also available for our New Cloud Control Panel.
Now that you know how to Create a New Server, this article will show you how you can...
You have just learned how to enable Scheduled Imaging, create On-Demand snapshots, and Restore servers from an image. These images are ideal for use as templates or "gold images", so that you can easily restore to a known...
NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Control Panel. A version of this article is also available for our New Cloud Control Panel.
If you have enabled Scheduled Imaging or saved an On-Demand image, you now have the...
You have just learned how to enable Scheduled Imaging, create On-Demand snapshots, and Restore servers from an image. These images are ideal for use as templates or "gold images", so that you can easily restore to a known...
You have just learned how to enable Scheduled Imaging, create On-Demand snapshots, and Restore servers from an image. These images are ideal for use as templates or "gold images", so that you can easily restore to a known...
You have just learned how to enable Scheduled Imaging, create On-Demand snapshots, and Restore servers from an image. These images are ideal for use as templates or "gold images", so that you can easily restore to a known...
You have just learned how to enable Scheduled Imaging, create On-Demand snapshots, and Restore servers from an image. These images are ideal for use as templates or "gold images", so that you can easily restore to a known...
You have just learned how to enable Scheduled Imaging, create On-Demand snapshots, and Restore servers from an image. These images are ideal for use as templates or "gold images", so that you can easily restore to a known...
NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Control Panel. A version of this article is also available for our New Cloud Control Panel.
If you have enabled Scheduled Imaging or saved an On-Demand image, you now have the...
You have just learned how to enable Scheduled Imaging, create On-Demand snapshots, and Restore servers from an image. These images are ideal for use as templates or "gold images", so that you can easily restore to a known...
You have just learned how to enable Scheduled Imaging, create On-Demand snapshots, and Restore servers from an image. These images are ideal for use as templates or "gold images", so that you can easily restore to a known...
NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Cloud Control Panel. You can access this interface from the New Cloud Control Panel by clicking your username in the upper-right of the control panel and selecting "Classic...
Backing Up Your MySQL Database
To manage your MySQL database, you'll first need to login to the online manager (phpMyAdmin).
After you are logged into the online manager, click on a database or table in the left frame as shown...
We saw how easy it was to use rsync and how to exclude files from the rsync backup.
To make things even easier, we can set up an automatic rsync and place the files into daily folders.
This article will walk you through the process of backing up an MS SQL Server 2008 Database. These actions need to be completed by the Administrator user or by a user that is part of the MS SQL Admin user group.
IMPORTANT NOTE...