Create Snapshot

Create a Snapshot

Continuing with best practices, once you have configured your application as desired, creating a snapshot is a wise idea. This ensures that you have a copy that can be quickly and easily deployed if any issues occur with your current instance.

Amazon Lightsail offers two types of snapshots:

A) Manual Snapshot: Create a backup of the instance, system disk, and attached disks. Snapshots are created when you click Create snapshot or call the ‘CreateInstanceSnapshot’ API.

Note: Manual snapshots are not deleted when the instance is deleted. They are deleted automatically. Proceed with caution.

B) Automated Snapshot: Snapshots are automatically created daily at the time you choose. Lightsail will retain the 7 most recent snapshots.

If you have a website with daily or frequent updates, we recommend using automated snapshots.

  1. Click on Home and select Akaunting.

  • Choose Snapshots, then click the Automated Snapshots toggle.

  • Note: Both automated and manual snapshots incur a monthly charge of $0.05 per GB. This is not included in the monthly instance cost.

  • Check the box I understand, then click Yes, Enable.

Create VPC

  1. Choose Change snapshot time and select the time you need.

Create VPC

  1. Choose Coordinated Universal Time

Create VPC

  1. Choose Change

  2. Follow the steps above with the ‘Workshop-PrestaShop’ instance.

  • Select the ‘Workshop-Wordpress’ instance.
  • Choose Snapshots.
  • Under ‘Manual snapshots’, select Create snapshot.

Create VPC

  1. Name the snapshot ‘Workshop-WordPress-Manual-Snapshot’, then click Create.

  2. Go to Home, then select Databases.

Create VPC

  1. Select (‘Workshop-HA-Instance’).
  • Choose Snapshots & restore.

Create VPC

  1. Click Create snapshot. Name the snapshot ‘Workshop-HA-Instance-Backup’.

  2. Click Create.

Create VPC

  1. Complete.

Create VPC