Backups
Create point-in-time backups of your storage volumes to protect your data.
What you can do
What are backups?
Backups are immutable copies of your storage volumes at a specific point in time.
They are used for:
- Disaster recovery
- Long-term data retention
- Restoring data to a new or existing volume
When to use backups
- Protect critical databases and stateful services
- Before migrations or upgrades
- To meet compliance or retention requirements
How backups work
- Backups operate at the volume level
- They can be restored to create a new volume
- They remain unchanged after creation
For best results:
- Stop instances before backing up attached volumes
- Use snapshots instead for boot volumes
Key behavior
- Attached volumes may require stopping the instance for consistency
- Boot volumes use snapshots, not backups
- Status values include:
creating,available,deleting,error
Pricing
Backups are billed based on the amount of data stored.
See Billing for current usage and cost estimates.
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