Scheduled images

In addition to on-demand images, you have the ability to enable scheduled images on any servers for which the service is appropriate. The scheduled images service automatically creates a daily or weekly image of the server. Remember that a virtual machine image is not really a backup of a server, so whether scheduled images are an appropriate solution for you depends on your use case. For more information, see the Scheduled Images FAQ in Rackspace How-To.

See also

Image properties Data immutability On-demand images Importing and exporting images Scheduled images Creating custom images from servers Creating cloud servers from base images: Default base image configurations Base images life cycle Patching base images

Sharing images: Managing shared images Models of sharing images Planning to share or use shared images Preparing to share images Image-sharing roles Getting support for shared images

Understanding Cloud Images introduces key ideas. To learn how to put these ideas to work, start at Actions for Cloud Images.