The Linode Backup System is designed to be an easy to use, reliable and redundant on-site backup solution for your Linode. It performs backups without causing any interruption of your running system. It provides 4 backup slots. Three of the slots are executed and rotated automatically: a daily backup, a 2-7 day old backup, and an 8-14 day old backup. The fourth backup slot is a user-initiated snapshot and remains in place until another user-initiated snapshot is taken.
* Resiliency:
o Our storage back ends tolerate hard drive failures by utilizing RAID across many drives.
* Restoring:
o You can restore a backup to any of the Linodes attached to this account, even if they do not have backups enabled. Currently only a full restore is possible.
* Limitations:
o The backup system must be able to mount your disk images on the host. If you've used fdisk on your images to create partitions, or created encrypted volumes, or done anything other than use our deployment or disk image creation tools, we won't be able to back up the data. The backup system operates on files, not at the block level.
