In today's digital landscape, data is at the heart of every operation. Protecting your data is of utmost importance, and knowing how your environment's backup mechanism works is crucial. In this article, we'll delve into the backup strategy for your environment, including how often backups are taken and how you can track and restore them as needed.

In CloudJiffy, your data can be backed up in the following manner: 

1. Wordpress backup (Addons)

Backup Add-On is a solution that backups filesystem and database of a web application to the Backup Storage node within the CloudJiffy Application Platform.

How does WordPress backup add-on and backup-storage works

2. Database backup (Addons)

Database Backup add-on is compatible with all the MySQL-based (MySQL/MariaDB/Percona), PostgreSQL, and Redis databases in the Cloudjiffy Application Platform. It works with Backup Storage to help users automatically create and store database backups at the remote storage.
How should I Schedule Backups for MySQL and MariaDB Databases
How should I perform PostgreSQL Database Backups
How should I perform MongoDB Database Backups

3. Manual backup

How do I take backup of my application manually

4. Backup using SFTP ( Secure File Transfer Protocol )

It's a network protocol that allows secure file transfers between a client and a server. SFTP is often called "Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol" because it uses Secure Shell (SSH) for authentication and data encryption. 

How do I use SFTP Protocols for Accessing Cloudjiffy Containers

How do I upload/manage files via SFTP/FISH?

How do I take backup Using SFTP?

5. Complimentary back up

We prioritize regular data protection with complimentary backups taken every alternate day. This consistent approach ensures that your environment remains secure and up-to-date. Backups are retained for 15 days(7 copies), providing historical data accessibility. The backup will be retained for 15 days from the capture date and after 15 days the data will be over written by the new backups. With complimentary backups, you may not be able to access the backups directly and will have to contact the CloudJiffy support team to understand the availble backups and the CloudJiffy team will restore the same for you. 

If the need arises for data restoration, we are here to assist you. While we may not offer the granularity of restoring individual files or databases, we provide a comprehensive environment restoration service. This means that in the event of data loss or issues, we can restore your entire container from the backups. Our support team is well-equipped to handle environment restorations promptly and accurately. Should you encounter any data-related challenges, we stand ready to assist in recovering your environment to its previous state.

Steps to restore data
Where there is a need to restore data, please reach out to our team via ticket and our team will share the list of backups available with us. You can choose which version of the back should be restored and our team will restore the data for you. 

Please note: Though CloudJiffy provides a complimentary backup to ensure you have the data when you need it, it is always recommended, that you should take backup at regular intervals to ensure, that the data is also available with you.