Backing Up and Restoring Single Container

A regular backing up of the existing Containers is essential for any Container reliability. Any Container is defined by its operating system files, applications installed, configuration files, and personal information. Parallels Infrastructure Manager allows you to back up all these components.

For a Container that has been backed up, a table describing its backups is displayed:

To sort out the backups, click the Show Search link, enter the date and time of the backup creation, other parameters of the backups you need to display, and click Search.

You can have Infrastructure Manager display only those parameters you need at the moment. To show or hide certain columns, click the Select Columns link and select the parameters you want to be displayed or clear those you do not.

With the help of the action links above the table you can manage your backups on this page in the following ways:

• The New Backup link (or the New button on the Infrastructure Manager toolbar) begins the process of backing up the current state of the Container, be it running or not. The description of all possible Container statuses is provided in the Container Statuses section. Infrastructure Manager places the backup of the Container onto one of the Nodes registered in Parallels Infrastructure Manager that was set as the default backups storage space. For a Parallels Power Panel user, the button is available only if you have not reached the maximum number of allowed backups for the Containers residing on this Hardware Node. If you have, remove one of the backups to yield more extra space (see below for details) or ask your provider for help. The Node administrator can in this case change the number of the backups allowed.

  Note: Backing up is also available on clicking the Back up link above the Containers table on the relative page.

• A Parallels Power Panel user who has reached the limit on the number of Container backups he/she is allowed to create can make use of the Renew Backup link to renew a Container backup without having to delete any of the existing Container backups. You renew any Container backup by selecting the checkbox opposite the corresponding date and clicking on the Renew Backup button. Mind that only one backup can be renewed at a time.
• The Restore Container link allows to restore the Container from the backup currently selected in the table. Only one backup should be selected for this operation. The opened page provides instructions to lead you through the process. The Container will be restored with all the values overwritten from the backup, including the hostname, IP address, application set, etc. The changes in the Container made after the date of this backup will be lost after the Container has been restored. Mind that you have to confirm restoring the Container on the Restore Confirmation page to accomplish the process.

  Note: If you are using a Container IP address to connect to the Container, you may have to reconnect to it with the IP address retrieved from the backup after the Container is restored.

• The Remove Backups button removes the Container backups currently selected in the table. Usually this is done to provide extra space for making new Container backups. Use the checkbox at the upper left corner to select/deselect all the backups at once.
• Clicking on a backup date in the table opens the Backup Details page where you can also restore or remove the corresponding Container backup.

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