Category: Data Protection
- Server is healthy and critical services are in known good state.
- Sufficient snapshot storage quota is available.
- You understand whether snapshot captures full disk or selected volume.
- Open the server page and choose Snapshot or Backup action.
- Name snapshot with date and purpose, such as pre-upgrade-2026-04-22.
- Wait until snapshot status shows completed before proceeding with risky changes.
- To recover, open snapshot list and select Restore to server or new instance.
- Confirm target and start restore operation.
- Revalidate application configuration and data integrity after restore completes.
- Snapshot appears in list with completed state.
- Restored server boots and services start successfully.
- Critical application data and configs match expected pre-change state.
- Running major changes before snapshot completion finishes.
- Overwriting the wrong target instance during restore.
- Not documenting snapshot purpose, making rollback decisions unclear.