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== Restore Options == | == Restore Options == | ||
Revision as of 17:43, 4 December 2012
Nightly Offsite Backups
As a high value free service, by default, Hostek.com provides nightly offsite backups.
Nightly backups are kept for 5 nights by default for VPS and Virtual Dedicated servers.
An Offsite Backup is a backup of the server that is stored off site. For example, if your server is in our St. Louis location, the nightly backup would be encrypted and stored off site in our Dallas location.
Restore Options
Many VPS providers only provide a system restore, in which it restores the entire VPS. With our backups, a complete bare metal restore can be done, or just a specific folder, or even down to a specific file.
How Restores are Handled
We can give you control to be able to do the restores, but we highly suggest you let us handle the restores for you instead. The reason is, and no offense meant, but if you don't know what you are doing with the backup/restore process, you can corrupt your backups and then there would be nothing to restore. By submitting a ticket and letting us handle the restore for you, that helps preserve your backup integrity.