Backups
The Linode Backup System is designed to be an easy to use, reliable and redundant on-site backup solution for your Linode. It performs backups without causing any interruption of your running system. It provides 4 backup slots. Three of the slots are executed and rotated automatically: a daily backup, a 2-7 day old backup, and an 8-14 day old backup. The fouth backup slot is a user-initiated snapshot and remains in place until another user-initiated snapshot is taken.
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Resiliency:
- Linode's storage back ends tolerate hard drive failures by utilizing RAID across many drives.
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Restoring:
- You can restore a backup to any of the Linodes attached to this account, even if they do not have backups enabled. Currently only a full restore is possible.
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Limitations:
- The backup system must be able to mount your disks on the host. If you've used fdisk on your disks to create partitions, or created encrypted volumes, or done anything other than use Linode's deployment or disk creation tools, the backup system won't be able to back up the data. The backup system operates on files, not at the block level.
Backups for this Linode are .