Restoring backups from WebOké

We back up your entire VPS every day to a separate storage server. The last 7 days are kept. You can also make a backup yourself once a day.

Making a backup yourself

1. Open the VPS screen and choose the Backups tab.
2. Click Create a backup now.

The list shows all backups with their date and size, and their type: daily or manual.

Restoring a backup

1. In the Backups tab, click Restore next to the backup.
2. Enter your WebOké password to confirm and click Confirm.

Your entire VPS is replaced by the backup. Anything that changed after that is lost. Restoring usually takes a few minutes; your VPS then starts up again automatically.

Recovering just a few files

A backup always restores the entire VPS. If you only need a few files back, do this:

1. Take a snapshot of the current state (see Snapshots: a safety net for every major change).
2. Restore the backup.
3. Copy the files you need to your own computer, for example with scp or rsync (see An SSH config: log in with a short name).
4. Restore the snapshot. Your server is back to its current state.
5. Put the files back on the server and delete the snapshot.

An easier option is your own backup with restic: it lets you recover individual files and folders without replacing the whole server. See Backups with restic to another location.

Please note: WebOké's backups are stored with the same provider as your VPS. For important data, you also want a copy somewhere else, outside WebOké. That is the 3-2-1 rule: three copies, on two types of storage, one of them in a different location.