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Scheduled daily snapshots
For servers with the daily-snapshot addon, we snapshot at 03:00 UTC and rotate.
Customers can purchase the Daily snapshot addon at order time. Servers with this addon get a full-disk snapshot every day at 03:00 UTC, retained per the server's snapshotRetentionDays (default 7).
Behavior
Cron tick iterates every ACTIVE server with
snapshotEnabled = true.For each, the cloud platform's snapshot API is called to capture a point-in-time image.
Persists a
BackupArtifactrow with kindSCHEDULEDand the snapshot image id.Sets
expiresAt = now + retentionDays.Sweeps any expired artifacts: deletes the snapshot image and the row.
What's in a snapshot
A full disk image of the VPS at the moment of capture — OS, application files, MySQL state, recordings (if you keep them on root). The snapshot is bootable: a restore swaps the running disk for the snapshot disk.
Cost
Snapshot storage is billed per GB-month. We pass a flat addon price; if a customer needs longer retention than 7 days, contact support.
Tags: backups, snapshots, addons