Backups - Guides

Updated July 7, 2023

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 Cloud Manager to enable the Backup Service.
Schedule Backups : Configure when automatic backups are initiated.
Take a Manual Snapshot : Learn how to make manual backups (snapshots) of your Compute Instance.
Restore a Backup to a New Compute Instance : Restore a backup to a new Compute Instance.
Restore a Backup to an Existing Compute Instance : Restore a backup to an existing Compute Instance.
Cancel the Backup Service : Cancel the Backups Service through 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 November 12, 2021.