My DB’s and uploaded files i have a backup solution for and the code is backed up on github.
In my local development i use VM’s and i take regular manual backup copies of them like before i need to do some stuff in the teminal and if i break the server i just shut down my VM and replace the image file and spin it up again.
At Hetzner i can do just this per server but is this recommended since Cleavr is supose to do everything on Hetzner?
Maybe this is a stupid thought but locally has this saved me a lot of time just restoring the whole server image rather than trying to figure out what i did that broke it and then try to fix it.
Cleavr doesn’t necessary do everything that a VPS provider offers via their app, we mainly focus on what’s needed to support and deploy web apps.
There’d be no issues I can think of doing full server backups via Hetzner. You could do something similar with Cleavr backups, but we intended the backup solution in Cleavr to also be more app file-system and database specific over full server copies.
There’s always the possibility - but if it’s a full restore, the IP is the same, and the SSH key Cleavr uses is still present, then should be fine.
The main thing I can think of would be if there are discrepancies between the server image and Cleavr - such as if a service, site, web app, backups, etc that was added to Cleavr but the restored version doesn’t have the resource installed, in that case Cleavr might show something that’s not actually on the restored version of the server.
I do this Hetzner server backups all the time. Used the server backup ones at a moment that some upgrade doesn’t worked well. If you do right wait until a server backup is done and start than your changes on the server
