Any Container is defined by its operating system files, applications installed, configuration files, and personal information. Parallels Power Panel allows you to back up all these components. A regular backing up of the existing Containers is essential for any Container reliability.
The Maintenance page, which allows you to perform backing up and restoring operations, opens after you click the Maintenance link on the main menu or selecting the Maintenance link on the Container Management dashboard accessible after clicking the Container Management link on the menu. If you already have backups of the given Container, it displays a table summarizing the backups.
Apart from dealing with Container backups, you may perform the operations that would guarantee the integrity and overall operability of your Container, that is reinstalling the Container (the Reinstall Container sub-tab) and mounting the Container in the Repair Mode (the Repair Mode sub-tab). To open the screen where you can check for, and, if necessary, download updates for OS and/or application packages in your Container, click the Update Software button.
Column Name |
Description |
Backed Up |
The date and time when the backing up was performed. |
Size |
The size of the backup. |
Type |
Denotes if it is a full, incremental, or differential backup. An incremental backup stores not all the files and settings of the Container at the given period of time, but only the changes the Container has undergone since the last backup. A differential backup saves the data changed after the last full backup. |
You can manage your backups on this page in the following ways:
Note: If you are using an IP address of your Container to connect to it, you may have to reconnect to the Container with the IP address retrieved from the backup after the Container is restored.