Backups

Backups are optional. PATCH /v1/machines/{id} with {"backup":true} enables them. Each hour, Panes copies a changed, stopped computer and keeps its latest two copies on separate storage.

Prices: $0.018 per GB-month of copies kept, charged hourly; $0.00035 per GB copied; $0.0003 per GB restored. GB means 1,000,000,000 bytes. The computer's backup object gives bytes, copies and prices.

POST /v1/machines/{id}/restore with {"copy":"<backup.copies[].id>"} restores a stopped computer. Restore can take about half an hour. Wait until backup.restoring clears before starting; a failure leaves the old computer and sets backup.restore_error.

Disabling backups with {"backup":false}, or deleting the computer, deletes its copies and ends their charge. A computer without backups enabled has no backup copies. Download important outputs yourself.