If we have Alibaba Cloud accounts, we will definitely receive Alibaba Cloud's push messages about the commercialization of snapshot policies in the recent period. Billing has been officially implemented since July 3. In fact, the automatic backup of snapshots provided by Alibaba Cloud is quite convenient. If you are using ECS servers and other storage devices, starting and using snapshot backups can ensure data security.
Lao Zuo also opened AliCloud ECS before The servers also start automatic snapshots (they should have been free at the beginning, and opening them is an additional benefit, which must be used). After this commercialization, I originally thought that the previously opened ones would require the user's back office to confirm their continued use before accounting for fees. It happened that last night, I logged in to Alibaba Cloud's back office and submitted a work order regarding the form of billing, Then I received the work order in the morning and saw that the reply was“ Hello, if you delete all the reserved snapshots and delete the automatic snapshot policy, if there is no reserved snapshot under your account, you will not be charged in the next billing cycle. Thank you. "。
Therefore, if we have enabled automatic snapshots before and have snapshot policies saved, we will automatically charge for them. If we want to continue using them, we don't need to care. If we don't want to continue using or adjust the automatic snapshot policies, it should be up to 30 days before. If we do not plan to use the automatic snapshot service, we need to shut it down in the following way.
First, delete all saved snapshot policies
If we do not prepare the snapshot service, we need to delete all the snapshot lists first. I deleted it before, so I can't see the existing snapshot list in the screenshot.
Second, delete the snapshot policy
At the same time, you need to delete the snapshot policy. According to the official statement, this will not automatically charge snapshots.
Of course, the snapshot strategy is a good way to back up server data. If our project is important and we are too lazy to back up frequently, we can set a snapshot backup strategy for a certain period, and then let us help us back up automatically. It only costs a little money. The default is to pay by volume, and you can buy storage packages, This seems to save a little.
