{"id":16863,"date":"2024-01-31T16:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T16:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=16863"},"modified":"2024-01-31T16:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T16:57:38","password":"","slug":"how-to-manage-backups-in-cloudpap","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/docs\/how-to-manage-backups-in-cloudpap\/","title":{"rendered":"How to manage backups in CloudPap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Backups are essential in our day-to-day use of VMs, especially when a disaster strikes. We will look at how we can set up backups, change frequency, and restore a backup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Log in to your CloudPap dashboard and go to your VM:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-10-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16864\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-10-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-10-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-10.png 1917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There, you will see some details about your VM. You will also see a table showing your VM&#8217;s backups (if any) as well as the Change Frequency button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can initiate a backup at any time. Click the Action dropdown button, then click Backups. Click the green Backup button on the popup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-11-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16866\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-11-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-11-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-11.png 1917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The backup process may take some time depending on the total amount of data in your VM. Once the process is done, it will appear on the Backups table:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-12-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16867\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-12-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-12-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-12.png 1917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To restore a backup, click the Restore button and the end of the Backup row. You will receive a warning that the backup will overwrite the current state of the VM and restore it as it was when the backup was done. Click Restore to proceed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-13-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16868\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-13-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-13-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-13.png 1917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it, your backup will be restored:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-14-1024x543.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16869\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-14-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-14-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-14.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can change the frequency of your backups. There are four backup plans; daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. To change the plan, click the Change Frequency button, then choose the desired options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-15-1024x543.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16871\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-15-1024x543.png 1024w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-15-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-15.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s it, you have successfully created and managed your VM backups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backups are essential in our day-to-day use of VMs, especially when a disaster strikes. We will look at how we can set up backups, change frequency, and restore a backup. Log in to your CloudPap dashboard and go to your VM: There, you will see some details about your VM. You will also see a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[127,128],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-16863","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-servers","doc_category-vps"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":218,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"Ian","author_nicename":"ian","author_url":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/author\/ian\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Servers","term_url":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/docs-category\/servers\/"},{"term_name":"VPS","term_url":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/docs-category\/vps\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/16863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudpap.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}