Restoring a server to a snapshot

Servers in Cleura Cloud that have the recovery service feature enabled can go back in time, meaning you may restore such a server to one of the available point-in-time snapshots. Here is how you can do that.

How to restore, step by step

To select a particular snapshot and restore your server to it, first off, navigate to the Cleura Cloud Management Panel. From the left-hand side vertical pane, choose Compute → Servers. In the central pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, locate the server of interest. Click its row to bring all server details into view, then go to the Recovery Service tab.

Notice the Backing volume and its ID. Click the ID, and in the pop-up window that appears, select View Details.

A new pop-up window appears, displaying details about the server volume. Select the Recovery Service tab.

You now see all available volume snapshots. You may restore the server to any of those. Go ahead and click on the Restore option of the latest snapshot.

A new window named Restore Snapshot appears.

If the snapshot you are about to restore comes from a boot volume, like in the example here, then you can only restore the snapshot to a new volume.

Had you chosen to restore an older snapshot, then you could also restore it to a new volume.

The only time you can restore a snapshot to an existing volume is when the snapshot comes from a non-boot volume and is the newest.

To restore the selected snapshot, click the green Restore button.

Restoring a snapshot may take some time, but in many cases the operation completes after a few seconds. Check the messages at the bottom of the window for the latest restore jobs.

To see the new snapshot, from the left-hand side vertical pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel choose Storage → Volumes.

You can spot the new volume by looking at the name column; its name is prefixed by “Restored” and immediately followed by the ID of the original volume.

You can now create a server from the new volume. Click the orange icon at the left of the volume row, select Create Server, and work as you usually would while creating a new server.