At Dreamland Metaverse we offer saving and loading OAR and IAR archive files using our easy to use control panel. You can choose a number of options and shortly afterwards you have a local copy of your region's or inventory contents on your local computer. All that is very easy to use.
Beside that we do daily database backups to protect your contents. You can restore to the dialy backups of the last 5 days yourself, using the backup/restore control panel function. This way you easily revert to a previous states of your OpenSim region.
Another feature is that you can create up to 4 additional database snapshots that are stored for an unlimited time and that you can save and restore as you like. This way you can use your region for multiple purposes or you use that feature to backup important development steps.
Once a week we also save backup files at a remote location, so that even in the case of big disasters your contents is kept safe.
One important aspect from our perspective is, that data is always stored redundantly. The data of all the OpenSim grids and regions we host as well as all backup data is stored on redundant disk space. This way the chances of ever having to use a backup is significantly lower compared to hosting solutions not offering such data storage redundancy.
We recommend everybody to have a close look at hosting providers if they have a complete data protection and backup strategy. Your virtual world contents is too valuable to get lost!
You should choose a partner who you can trust that your data is stored safely and that the chances of having to use backups is nearly zero. Redundant data storage is essential in that respect. If anyway some day you need to restore some data, you should be sure, that you will get full support restoring your contents.
Snoopy Pfeffer
Founder & CEO of Dreamland Metaverse