This article covers the essentials of backing up your environments with snapshots on Magento Commerce (Cloud).
Affected versions
Magento Commerce (Cloud):
- Version: 2.X.X
- Plan: Starter, Pro Legacy, and Pro
Environment snapshot, Pro plan
Staging and Production environments
- Your Staging and Production environments are automatically backed up with snapshots every 6 hours.
- Manual snapshots are not available for Staging and Production environments on Pro plan.
- The backups are created using the encrypted Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Store (AWS EBS) snapshots.
- An automatic snapshot is stored for 14 days.
Integration environment
- Your Integration environment is not being backed up automatically, but you may create snapshots manually.
- You may have multiple snapshots that have been triggered manually.
- A manually triggered snapshot is stored for 7 days.
Related documentation on DevDocs: Create a snapshot.
Environment snapshot, Starter plan
- All types of environments (Integration, Staging, Production) are not being backed up automatically, but you may create snapshots manually.
- A manually triggered snapshot is stored for 7 days.
Database (DB) backup
DB backup is a part of a Cloud snapshot:
A snapshot is a complete backup of an environment that includes all persistent data from all running services (for example, your MySQL database, Redis, and so on) and any files stored on the mounted volumes.
Snapshots and backup management (DevDocs)
If, for any reason, you need to backup your DB only (on any environment), see the Knowledge Base article: Generate database dumps on Cloud.