In this tutorial of CloudSigma How-to Series we will walk you through CloudSigma’s brand new backup functionality. It is available for all customers in one of our European cloud locations. The new feature is based on remote snapshots. This service is an extension to our standard snapshot service however, it allows customers to create point-in-time snapshots as an independent backup in …
CloudSigma How To Series: Drive Snapshots
In this tutorial of CloudSigma’s How-to Series we walk you through one very important feature of CloudSigma – snapshots! With this feature you are able to create point-in-time snapshots of your drives. Subsequently, the snapshots can later be cloned and upgraded to create stand-alone drives. A snapshot can be created on-demand while the server is running. Thus, it will not …
Storage management with automatic periodic snapshots
A while ago, we introduced the ability to take snapshots of a drive. This is a very handy feature that allows you to quickly and efficiently save drive states even on live systems. Thanks to ZFS, automatic snapshots will only consume the delta between the current state and where the snapshot was taken. This means that if your original drive …
New cloud location, drive snapshots, meta data support and more
We’re now live in Washington DC Since we launched our Las Vegas cloud location in September, 2011, we’ve seen a steady growth of North American customers. As many of these customers are shifting more and more of their compute resources over to our cloud, a common request has been the ability to have compute resources on both coasts to minimise …