Services
Backup & Restore
Backups are a key element of hosting. You worked very hard building your application or website. The last thing you want is to lose everything because of a hardware failure. The fact of the matter is, most of us will one day face that situation for some reason. Don’t be the next one to say: “our application is lost”.
Backups are an expensive aspect of an infrastructure. The cost varies depending on the level of backup you choose. In a simple configuration, this could mean replicating a hard drive to another. But for more serious backup cases, you will need to copy your data to another data system or to tape. If you really want to be secure, you will need to take the data to another location. And even if you do that, you need to make sure that the data was actually saved somewhere else (meaning more than just mentioning this in your contract …)
Rackio offers professional backup services that fit your needs with clear expectations on any of the possible configurations. When you allow us to backup your stuff, we make sure we understand your goals and make sure you understand what type of security you will get in whatever setup we offer.
Like all of our services, we cater to your needs so you can sleep without worrying about your data.
Snapshot backups: take a snapshot of your virtual machine and revert to it whenever you need to, and it’s right on your server so it is blazing fast.
Offsite tape backups: this optional service includes backup to tape, which is regularly taken offsite. This backup allows you to keep archives of your content for longer periods of time. It also allows you to ask for data recovery within one business day.
Here is the backup schedule that will be applied on your servers:
Tape Backups
| Monthly | Weekly | Daily | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What does it store? | Complete set of data needed to backup the system | Complete set of data needed to backup the system | Set of any file that has changed since the most recent full backup |
| When is it written? | First weekend of the month | Each weekend | Each night |
| How long is it stored? | One year | Four weeks | One week |






