Create and restore snapshots
Take point-in-time snapshots of your Victus VPS before risky changes and roll back to them from the panel if something breaks.
A snapshot is a full point-in-time image of your VPS disk. It is your safety net before OS upgrades, config changes or installing something you are unsure about — if it goes wrong, you restore the snapshot and you are back where you started in minutes. Snapshots are managed entirely from the control panel.
Create a snapshot
- Open your VPS at control.victuscloud.com and go to the Snapshots view.
- Click to create a new snapshot and give it a clear name (e.g. "before-nginx-upgrade-2026-07").
- Wait for the snapshot status to complete before making your risky change.
Each plan includes a certain number of snapshot slots. If you hit the limit, delete an old snapshot or top up your snapshot allowance from the panel before creating a new one.
A snapshot is crash-consistent, like pulling the power. For databases, either stop the service or flush/lock it briefly before snapshotting so the image is application-consistent.
# Example: cleanly stop a database before snapshotting
systemctl stop mysql
# ...take the snapshot in the panel...
systemctl start mysqlRestore a snapshot
- Go to the Snapshots view for the VPS.
- Find the snapshot you want and choose Restore.
- Confirm — the VPS powers off, the disk is rolled back to that image, and it boots again.
A restore replaces the entire current disk with the snapshot. Any changes made after the snapshot was taken are lost. Snapshots are for rollback and recovery, not a substitute for off-machine backups — copy critical data to Victus Drive or elsewhere too.