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Snapshots

Panelica 1.0.375 Verified 2026-07-24 Backup & Migration

Snapshots are the fast, local safety net: a point-in-time copy of a domain or the whole server, taken in a moment on the right filesystem, kept close by for quick rollback. They complement backups rather than replace them (backups travel; snapshots stay local).

Panel locationBackup → Snapshotshttps://YOUR-SERVER-IP:8443/backup/snapshots
 Snapshots
Instant Mode Btrfs copy-on-write detected
TargetTypeSizeCreatedActions
📌 example.com +DBdomain1.1 GB2h agorestore · pin · delete

Instant or standard

Panelica detects the filesystem and picks the fastest method. On Btrfs, snapshots are copy-on-write: near-instant and space-efficient, because they share unchanged blocks with the live data. On other filesystems the panel falls back to a standard rsync copy. A banner at the top tells you which mode is active, and the snapshot list unifies domain and server snapshots on one screen with All / Domain / Server tabs.

A domain snapshot captures one domain's files, plus its database when the domain has one; a server snapshot captures the whole server and is ROOT-only.

Taking, restoring, keeping

Create a snapshot with an optional description. Restore rolls the target back to that point (ROOT-only, and it takes an automatic safety backup first). Pin a snapshot to protect it from automatic cleanup; a pinned snapshot cannot be deleted until unpinned. Delete removes one after confirmation.

Behind the scenes: the panel can take an automatic snapshot before risky changes when enabled, tagging it with the reason, so a configuration change has an instant undo. Retention is governed by settings ROOT controls: a maximum age, a per-domain snapshot cap, a server-snapshot cap and a total storage ceiling. A cleanup action prunes expired snapshots on demand, and pinned ones are always spared.
Snapshot versus backup: reach for a snapshot before editing a site or a config, when you want a one-click undo that lives on the same disk. Reach for a backup for anything you must survive a disk failure or move to another server, because a local snapshot dies with the disk it sits on.

Access

Behind the backup license feature (Community and up), with granular create, delete and pin permissions. Domain snapshots follow the roles and permissions chain; the Server tab is limited to ROOT and ADMIN, while creating, restoring and configuring server snapshots, plus retention settings and cleanup, are ROOT-only.

Panelica Documentation · Written and verified against the live panel. · Last verified 2026-07-24 on Panelica 1.0.375