Having a backup is always a good idea whether your data is on the cloud or stored in a physical server and is a great way to protect your Virtual Compute Node’s contents. With cloud backup, you can back up all the data and important information relating to projects and milestones without worrying about losing any crucial bits of business. With E2E Cloud, you’re assured of automatic backups of entire file systems at periodic intervals. With these regular backups, you can restore your data from any of the recovery points available. The best part about E2E Cloud’s backups is the use of incremental backups where only the blocks that have changed since the previous backup are written.
Why Backups?
By saving your Virtual Compute Node files and folders and reverting to a previous backup, you can better manage a server's backup policy. With E2E Cloud backups, you get a replica of your file system without having to worry about manually backing it up. E2E Cloud's CDP backup service saves your cloud instance data regularly, automatically, and incrementally, allowing you to recover data from whichever point you need. Some other benefits of utilising E2E Cloud's high-performance backup solutions are:
- The ability to schedule and manage backups without any hassle, thanks to a user-friendly interface.
- Efficient backup processes that don't impact the performance of systems I/O operations.
- Continual protection of your data with easy backup creation and data restoration process that can be automated.
- Incremental backups that help you save disk space by only saving unique data when compared to the last backup.
Wondering how to take the backup of on-site data on E2E Cloud? Here's a step-by-step breakdown:
Backup Service Activation:
To begin backing up your data, you first need to activate E2E Cloud's backup services. Here's how:
- Log Into My Account: Visit https://www.e2enetworks.com, log in using your credentials created when you first logged in to E2E Cloud.
- Navigate to the Backup page: Once you log in, you'll be redirected to the dashboard. Here, click on the Backups subsection under the Products header on the left menu.
- Enable Backups for your E2E Node:
- On the Backups page, you'll be able to view the number of E2E Nodes you've previously created.
- If you haven't, create your first E2E Node before proceeding to the next step.
- If E2E Nodes exist, click the toggle switch next to the node you wish to activate backup for.
- An Activate Backup popup will appear on the screen, and you'll have to choose the backup frequency.
- If the node you want to activate backup for is running on the MySQL server, you'll need to provide the admin credentials for the MySQL server to activate the backup. To do this, check the Does MySQL server also run on this server? box and enter the MySQL server credentials.
- Finally, click on the Activate button to begin the provisioning backups for your E2E Node.
- Once you activate backup for a node, the Backup status in the Manage Backups page will change to Processing.
Managing Backups:
Once the first backup is complete for an E2E Node, the backup status will change to Activate. You can now click on the + icon under each active node and access reports detailing the backup status, backup size, last available backup, and task history of scheduled run and completion time of your E2E Node backup.
Restoring Backup:
Using the restore feature, you can restore select files or the entire file system into your E2E Node from the available backup recovery point. Here's how:
- In the Backups page, scroll down to the Available Recovery Point to Restore section and select the recovery point you want.
- Next, click on the search icon next to your chosen recovery point to browse the file system.
- A new popup, Browse Recovery Point, will appear with all the files and folders backed up.
- Select the files and folders you wish to restore, accept the disclaimer, and click the Restore button.
- You'll receive a notification on the top right corner of the screen with details of the backup restoration process.
- Depending on the file size, the process can take anywhere between 2-5 minutes. Before beginning the restoration process, ensure you have enough free disk space to restore the files.
Deactivating Backups:
Follow these steps if you want to deactivate backups of your E2E Node:
- Go to the Backups page and click on the toggle switch for the E2E Node you want to stop the backups for.
- A confirmation popup will appear. Click on the Deactivate button to stop your E2E Node backups.
With E2E cloud, setting up, managing, activating, and deactivating your onsite data is an easy task. Our user-friendly interface and easy-to-follow instructions ensure you don’t spend too much time doing simple tasks and focus on further developing your business.