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IDrive® Compute Backup

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Deploy and manage the virtual private servers in your IDrive® Compute account from the web console.

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IDrive® Compute Backup

Backing up your IDrive® Compute instances will maintain an offsite repository of your data at a secure location and help in new instance creation in case of an instance failure. IDrive® Compute provides a hassle-free and easy-to-use gateway for the backup and recovery of the data and files available on the instances.
By default, the option to enable backup is selected at the time of an IDrive® Compute instance creation and it is strongly recommended that you enable backup from the start. Enabling backup will schedule an automatic daily/ weekly rotational backup as per the selected option so that all data changes are captured.

Note: The IDrive® Compute instance may go into a paused state for a short time during the backup operation and will resume automatically. This is to ensure the data integrity of the instance.

Enable/Schedule Backup of an Instance

The Enable Backup option under Optional Add-ons remains selected by default while creating a new instance. If you choose to deselect it during instance creation, you can enable it anytime later.
To enable backup for an instance later:

  1. Sign in to your IDrive® Compute account.
  2. Click Actions against the instance which you want to backup, and select Configure Backup. 

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  3. Click Enable Daily Backup in the Backups tab to backup the instance daily. To perform an automated backup every week, click Enable Weekly Backup.  

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Note: Backups will be charged additionally at $0.05/GB/month.

Disable Backup of an Instance

You can disable a daily/weekly backup schedule.
To disable a scheduled backup:

  1. Sign in to your IDrive® Compute account.
  2. Click Actions against the instance for which you want to disable the schedule, and select Configure Backup.
  3. Click Disable Daily Backup if you have a daily backup schedule enabled. To disable a weekly backup schedule, click Disable Weekly Backup.

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    Alternatively, you can click the instance, go to the Backups tab, and disable the backup schedule.

Note: Disabling backup will not delete backups that have already been taken and you can access them from the Backups tab.