Manage backups

Overview

Any Environment that supports backups has a Backups tab, which displays a list of all available backups. (If you don't have the correct viewing permissions, this item will be greyed out)

Using the filters at the top, you can find all available backups of a specific type and for a specific date range (or date).

There are 2 types of backups:

• Scheduled backups: these are made using (locked) Cron jobs and the schedule and retention info can be found by clicking the Info-icon by the Backups title. Usually, there are daily, weekly, monthly and yearly backups to be found.
• Manual: if you have the right permissions, there is a Back up now button you can use to trigger a backup on demand

Actions

You have different Actions available to you (again, depending on permissions)

Back up now

Users with the correct permissions will see a button in the top right of the Backups tab, to manually create a new backup.

This opens up a new modal where you have to confirm the action.

After which a new Queuejob is triggered and you get a notification.
When the task is finished, the new backup can be found in the overview, as a manual type.

Restore

Users with the correct permissions, will see an option to restore a backup to an environment, when they click the Actions cog of a backup entry.

Before restoring a backup, keep in mind this comes with a set of caveats:

• The Restore action only restores the database
• Restoring will cause downtime on the selected environment, the downtime will be variable depending on the size of your database and the current server load and size.
• High-traffic sites that rely heavily on their cache may be unable to recover from downtime during peak hours due to the absence of cache warming.

Clicking the Restore Action, will take you through a few steps to pick the correct environment to restore the database backup to.

Select the desired target Environment in the dropdown.

All you have left to do, is confirm your choice by writing a confirmation text.

Download

Users with the correct permissions will see an option to download a backup. This will be available by clicking the Actions cog of a backup entry.

You'll be able to choose to include the database and/or other paths, such as the entire home folder of the Environment.
If you close the modal while generating the download, you can still find the download links in your Notifications sidebar after the task has finished.
Be aware that the download link only remains active for a limited time.