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Easily link SnapShooter to UpCloud with API Access

UpCloud offers easy authentication for API access to grant SnapShooter permission to create and manage backups.

Easily link SnapShooter to UpCloud with API Access

Simple configuration without custom scripting

We pride ourselves on our friendly setup for configuring backups. We list your resources in our dashboard, and provide straightforward options for backup frequency and retention. Sit back and let us manage taking new backups and pruning old ones.

Simple configuration without custom scripting

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SnapShooter gives us infinite flexibility in configuring our backup policies and frees us from the confines of rigid, bare-bones functionality provided by VM vendors themselves.

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Learn how SnapShooter makes backups of your UpCloud.

Watch the way your data flows from source to the storage you decide.

Learn how UpCloud Backups/SnapShots work

SnapShooter communicates with UpCloud via API to schedule and manage snapshots. Your data stays within your UpCloud account.

  1. SnapShooter requests a snapshot via API with UpCloud
  2. UpCloud starts the process for performing a copy of the underlying file system
  3. The file system is copied to a snapshot
  4. SnapShooter request confirmation from UpCloud and will store key meta data
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