Server Backups / Data Backup
- ✓Customized backup management
- ✓Backup monitoring
- ✓Fast recovery
Server Backup Offers
Full System Backup
Backups at another location
Dedicated Server Backups
Dedicated Server and vServer Backup
Data security is becoming increasingly important in today's world and requires the use of the latest technologies to ensure consistent backups. Our team of technicians therefore constantly checks which technologies on the market can guarantee the data security of our customers in the long term. We spare no expense to provide you with a reliable solution.
Plesk Backup Management
If you are planning to run a large number of websites on a dedicated server and also want to provide your customers with backup management capabilities, for example, we always recommend using Plesk as the management environment. Plesk itself already includes a very good and comprehensive backup management. This allows you to send backups, for example, to a backup server or to a cloud environment.
We ourselves offer the possibility to mount a SMBv3 network drive within the server to an external backup server from us. This network drive can then be accessed using Plesk Backup Manager to create backups directly on the backup server.
Backups of cluster environments
Many of our customers run their own cluster of multiple server systems. This is usually based on Proxmox. Proxmox itself also offers a very comprehensive tool to create and maintain backups. This allows the storage of backups on a network drive such as SMB, which is provided by an external backup server.
However, since the introduction of the Proxmox Backup Server, we recommend our customers to use PBS as a backup server within a Proxmox environment. Depending on the size of the project, the number of backup states and the size of the data, it makes sense to operate a separate PBS for the project or to use our shared PBS storage system. We will be happy to advise you in this regard.
Backup of Windows Dedicated Servers
For dedicated servers with the Windows operating system, there are many different approaches to data backup. We do not offer any special software at this point. For Windows servers we offer
- SMBv3 (network drive) disk space
Depending on the type of backup you want to create, you can use Windows' own backup tools to create the backup to the appropriate network drive. If your application offers a backup function, backups from the application can of course also be stored on the network drive. The software or Windows is then responsible for managing the backup states.
vServer Backups
Included backups and backup options with vServer offerings
All vServer products, with the exception of our Storage/Promo vServers, already include a free daily backup. Therefore, a complete backup of the vServer is provided free of charge, which is outsourced to an external backup server. The backup period can be extended to one week for a percentage surcharge.
Due to the amount of data, a complete automatic backup is not an option for Storage vServer. We therefore recommend our external backup storage as an alternative. Depending on which data you store on your Storage vServer, you can then for example transfer it incrementally via restic, rsync or similar using the SMBv3 share.
Backup Consistency
It is our utmost concern that backups of our customers' data are created, however we cannot guarantee the consistency of the backups. In order to do so, we would need to restore backups on a regular basis and verify that these backups work and contain all data relevant to our customers.
We therefore urge each customer to also create backups of important data at regular intervals and on their own responsibility, as we cannot assume any liability risk here if restoring backups does not work.