Schedule Snapshot¶

Using our service catalog, you can setup a recurring snapshot job for one ore more of your block storage volumes.

The snapshot creation is using our Platform automation tool but using this to setup recurring snapshots can be a complex task. The service catalog greatly simplifies this.

To setup the service, first follow the general instructions on our Service catalog page.

Then follow these instructions:

• Give your service a name and optionally a description.

• In the Cron in GMT field you decide when and how often the job should run. You can use hourly, daily or weekly as base. Select the one that is closest to what you want to do. If you for example want to run a snapshot job once per night, select daily and then set the Hour(s) field to the hour you want to run the job.

• In the Age of snapshot deletion in hours you select how many historical copies you want to keep. If you keep the default value of 72, when taking snapshots, previous snapshots that are older than 72 hours would get deleted.

• In the volume field, select the volume that you want to backup.

• Press Launch when done.