Snapshots

[mroch]

Matt,

When you run out of snapshots, you have to delete one before making a new one. My plan only has one snapshot, so I have to delete my only backup. If the snapshot fails for some reason, I don't have a working snapshot to restore from. It'd be safer if it would delete the snapshot AFTER successfully making a new one.

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Marshall Roch

[hezekiah]

Your best bet in this case is (if you are able) to download the existing snapshot before deleting it and creating a new one. This way you can have any number of 'off-site' backups, and then upload the snapshots when/if you need to restore your system.

[mroch]

What's your uplink speed from home? 800MB+ is going to take a while from most places (I get 5mbps up, so this is more for others' benefit). If you've got a hosed server, that's a nice bit of downtime.