Tenant Cloud Storage Cloud File Storage Operation Guide

Scheduled Snapshots

Last Updated At: 2025-10-21 09:10:00

Function Overview

The Cloud File Storage (CFS) provides the Scheduled Snapshot feature, which is convenient for developers to flexibly set backup task policies.
Using different periodic snapshot policies for different businesses is advised. Recommended settings are given in the following table:

Business Scenario Snapshot Frequency Snapshot Retention Time
Core product/service Use regular snapshots, with policy set to once a day. 7-30 days
Non-core and non-data product/service Use regular snapshot, with policy set to once a week. 7 Days
Archive businesses Snapshots are manually created considering actual business requirements, and no fixed frequency is to be set. 1 month to several months
Testing services Snapshots are manually created considering actual business requirements, and no fixed frequency is to be set. Delete upon use

Directions

Creating Regular Snapshot Policy

  1. Log in to the CFS console.
  2. In the left navigation tree, select Snapshot > Scheduled Snapshot Policy.
  3. On the Scheduled Snapshot Policy page, click Create.
  4. Enter the snapshot name, select the backup date and time point, set the snapshot retention time, and click OK.

Associated File System

  1. In the Scheduled snapshot policy list, click Associate File System on the right side of the policy.
  2. Select the file system to be associated and click OK.

Turning on/off Scheduled Snapshot Policy

In the Scheduled snapshot policy list, click the switch button of the scheduled snapshot on the right side of the policy to enable or disable the scheduled snapshot policy.

Changing scheduled snapshot Policy

  1. In the scheduled snapshot policy list, click Modify Policy on the right side of the policy.
  2. On the Modify Snapshot Policy page, modify related parameters and click OK.

Deleting scheduled snapshot Policy

  1. In the scheduled snapshot policy list, click Delete on the right side of the policy.
  2. The Delete Snapshot Policy dialog box is displayed to view whether the policy is associated with the file system. Confirm and click OK.

    Note:

    The snapshot created by the deleted snapshot policy will not be deleted.