Archive for October, 2008
Reinstallation Of VPS Hosting
How to Reinstall your VPS ?
VPS Hosting reinstallation refers to recover the basic stage of the VPS in case the administrator have been modified, replaced or deleted any file that is a part of an application or OS template which has eventually brough the VPS to malfunction. This process immediately restores those files same as they were at the time of VPS creation. Always remember to backup your data prior to reinstallation of the VPS.
On the left-hand side, click on Reinstall
Click on Next
You will need to stop the VPS, in order to do that, you will need to click on the option “Next”
The VPS has been stopped now.
You will now find the option where you can reinstall the VPS with preserving the data files or rather delete them and reinstall again.
Once you have clicked the option, click on next. Please make a note, this is a irreversable process.
You will notice, that the operation is in process and the VPS is down at the time of reinstallation.
In order to check the status of the reinstallation, click on “Active Task”
Once the reinstallation is complete, remember to restart the VPS from start/stop VPS option
VPS has been Reinstalled.
Backup and Restoration of VPS
There are various ways to backup and restore data on a VPS. Following are the steps that will guide on backup / restoration of databases on a VPS :
> Click on Backup
> “New Backup”
> Create New Backup
> Then click on backup/restore VPS, you will notice the new backup is present there.
> Therefater, you may also restore the VPS.
> Once you click on “Restore VPS”, you may click on “Restore confirmation” to confirm restoration of VPS.
> Please make a note that you will need to reconnect to the VPS with the IP address that was restored from the backup after the vps is restored.
> You may need to start the vps through start/stop VPS Hosting option once the restoration is complete.
If you have reached number of allows backups, you will not be able to backup any further unless you remove the existing one and update the latest one. In this case, you will need to remove any old backup.
> Once that is done, you will be able to view “New Backup” and hence restore it once done.