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Backups - Guides

Fully managed automatic daily, weekly, and biweekly backups of your Linode Compute Instances.

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Basics

These introductory guides help get you up and running with Linode’s Backup Service.

Enable the Backup Service: Use the Cloud Manager to enable the Backup Service.
Schedule Backups: Configure when automatic backups are initiated.
Take a Manual Snapshot: You can make manual backups, or snapshots of your Linode.
Restore a Backup to a New Linode: Restore a backup to a new Linode.
Restore a Backup to an Existing Linode: Restore a backup to an existing Linode.
Boot from a Backup: After restoring from a backup, boot into the backup restoration disk/configuration.
Cancel the Backup Service: Cancel the Backups Service through the Cloud Manager.

Troubleshooting Backups: Get solutions for issues you may encounter when using our Backup service.
Download a Local Copy of your Linode Backup

This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 2, 2020.