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Create and restore snapshots

Take point-in-time snapshots of your Victus VPS before risky changes and roll back to them from the panel if something breaks.

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A snapshot is a full point-in-time image of your VPS disk. It is your safety net before OS upgrades, config changes or installing something you are unsure about — if it goes wrong, you restore the snapshot and you are back where you started in minutes. Snapshots are managed entirely from the control panel.

Create a snapshot

  1. 1Open your VPS at control.victuscloud.com and go to the Snapshots view.
  2. 2Click to create a new snapshot and give it a clear name (e.g. "before-nginx-upgrade-2026-07").
  3. 3Wait for the snapshot status to complete before making your risky change.

Snapshots count against your allowance

Each plan includes a certain number of snapshot slots. If you hit the limit, delete an old snapshot or top up your snapshot allowance from the panel before creating a new one.

Quiesce your data for consistency

A snapshot is crash-consistent, like pulling the power. For databases, either stop the service or flush/lock it briefly before snapshotting so the image is application-consistent.

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# Example: cleanly stop a database before snapshotting
systemctl stop mysql
# ...take the snapshot in the panel...
systemctl start mysql

Restore a snapshot

  1. 1Go to the Snapshots view for the VPS.
  2. 2Find the snapshot you want and choose Restore.
  3. 3Confirm — the VPS powers off, the disk is rolled back to that image, and it boots again.

Restoring overwrites current data

A restore replaces the entire current disk with the snapshot. Any changes made after the snapshot was taken are lost. Snapshots are for rollback and recovery, not a substitute for off-machine backups — copy critical data to Victus Drive or elsewhere too.

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