Weap.io Docs
  • Home
  • Overview
    • What are Provider Snapshots?
    • What are Database Backups?
    • What are File Backups?
  • Provider snapshots
    • Alibaba Cloud
      • Get started
    • AWS EC2
      • Get started
    • AWS Lightsail
      • Get started
    • DigitalOcean
      • Get started
      • Multi-region replication
      • Trigger manual snapshots
    • Exoscale
      • Get started
    • Google Cloud Platform
      • Get started
    • Hetzner
      • Get started
    • OVH
      • Get started
    • Scaleway
      • Get started
    • UpCloud
      • Get started
  • Database backups
    • MySQL backups
      • Get started
      • Encrypted MySQL backups
      • Exclude certain tables from the backups
    • PostgreSQL backups
      • Get started
      • Auto-synchronize your PostgreSQL databases
    • How to decrypt a database backup
  • File Backups
    • Get started
  • Storages
    • Overview
    • How to connect your AWS S3 storage
    • How to connect your Backblaze B2 storage
    • How to connect your Azure Blob Storage
    • How to connect your SFTP storage
  • Encryption keys
    • How to generate an encryption key
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • Introduction
  • What providers are supported?
  • How a native snapshot is created and retained?
  • What are the benefits of using native snapshots?

Was this helpful?

  1. Overview

What are Provider Snapshots?

Overview of Provider Snapshots.

Introduction

A native snapshot is a backup created and stored directly inside the infrastructure of your provider.

What providers are supported?

Currently, we support the following poviders:

  • DigitalOcean

  • Hetzner

  • AWS EC2

  • AWS Lightsail

  • Google Cloud Platform

  • Alibaba Cloud

  • UpCloud

  • Scaleway

  • OVH

  • Exoscale

How a native snapshot is created and retained?

In order to create native snapshots, Weap.io uses the API provided by the cloud provider. Following the preferences of your retention policy, Weap will keep an optimal number of active snapshots.

What are the benefits of using native snapshots?

  • more frequent, up to hourly backups

  • more flexible retention

  • choose the time when to create the snapshots

  • more cost effective:

    • DigitalOcean charges you 20% of the server plan to offer weekly backups. Using snapshots, you will pay only 0.05$/GB/month

    • Hetzner charges you 20% of the server plan for daily backups. Using snapshots, you will pay only 0.01€/GB/month

  • securely stored inside the infrastructure of the cloud provider

  • simple & fast recover by restoring an existent server or creating a new one

PreviousHomeNextWhat are Database Backups?

Last updated 4 years ago

Was this helpful?