Backup overview
Xen Orchestra ships a complete, agentless backup engine for your whole infrastructure: nothing to install inside your VMs, everything managed from one place, from quick rolling snapshots to cross-site disaster recovery.
Backup strategy guide
This guide explains how to design and implement a backup strategy in Xen Orchestra.
Backups in XO 6
XO 6 puts backup health where you look every day: on the dashboards. This page covers what you can see and follow from XO 6; creating and editing backup jobs is currently done in XO 5 (see XO 6 and XO 5).
Backup types
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Features and settings
This page describes the backup configuration in the XO 5 interface. XO 6 already shows your jobs, their runs and each VM's protection status; creating, editing and restoring still happens here.
Scale and security
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Backup reports
At the end of a backup job, Xen Orchestra can send you a report through the channel of your choice: email, XMPP, Slack or Mattermost, and even straight into your Nagios or Icinga 2 monitoring.
Backup troubleshooting
This page lists the most common errors you can meet with XO backups, what they mean and how to fix them.
Retention calculator
- One restore point per backup run (the default is one run per day).