Deletion of Servers with Backups

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forum:johnnyb_61820 9 years, 10 months ago

One of my concerns with Linode is that it seems almost too easy to remove a server. If I have a server that I have enabled backups on, and someone accidentally deletes my server (i.e., perhaps thinking it was a different one), are the backups gone, too? Or can I still access them somehow after the server is deleted?

Is there any other way to prevent accidental deletion of important nodes?

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mcintosh 9 years, 10 months ago Linode Staff

We keep images of recently deleted Linodes around for a reasonable amount of time (enough time that you'd surely realize what happened before it couldn't be rescued) to account for accidental deletions.

EDIT: As pointed out, "enough time that you'd surely realize what happened before it couldn't be rescued" is a subjective statement, but I'm speaking quite generally. We, of course, can't and shouldn't store images of recently deleted Linodes for years, for example.