Taking a snapshot of your Farbyte KVM server is easy & can be done in under a minute.
This is a great tool for preserving the state of your servers before doing any maintenance or updates.
To perform a snapshot:
- Login to your Farbyte account at https://farbyte.uk
- Click on your Cloud KVM IaaS service
- Click the name of the server or the manage button of the server you want to snapshot
- Under the Additional Tools menu, click the Snapshots option
- Click the Take Snapshot button
- In the Take Snapshot dialogue that appears, give the snapshot a Name (no spaces, alphanumeric only) & Description (full text)
- Tick the Include RAM option if you also want to snapshot the current RAM contents
- Click the Take Snapshot button
