Side by side
| Snapshot | Backup | Uno sleep snapshot | Uno daily copy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taken | On demand or on a rule | On a schedule | Each time the computer falls asleep | Once a day, by itself |
| Holds | Disk, sometimes memory | Disk or files | Memory and disk of one moment | The disk |
| Lives | Next to the machine | Elsewhere | On the same server | Off the server, locked |
| Survives a lost server | usually not | yes | no | yes |
| Kept | Until you delete it | A few copies, then the oldest goes | While the computer sleeps | 7 days |
| Use it for | Undo, clone, wake | Disaster recovery | Waking with programs running | Going back after a bad day |
What other places call them
Names and rules change from host to host. Five, checked on 16 October 2026:
| Where | Snapshot | Backup |
|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Cloud | Made by hand: a copy of a server's disk | Hetzner Cloud makes backups automatically every day and keeps up to seven; when the limit is reached the oldest is deleted |
| DigitalOcean | DigitalOcean charges snapshots by size, per GB a month: $0.06 per GB a month, so $1.50 for 25 GB | DigitalOcean's basic backup plans add 20% of the Droplet's price for weekly copies and 30% for daily ones |
| Fly Sprites | A checkpoint: a copy-on-write snapshot of the writable filesystem, taken without stopping the Sprite; it does not capture memory or processes. the last five are mounted read-only | No separate backup product on the pages we read |
| Modal Sandboxes | Filesystem snapshots stay 30 days, memory snapshots 7 days. Taking a snapshot ends the sandbox, and open TCP connections close and have to be opened again | No separate backup product on the pages we read |
| Morph Cloud | Holds the whole state of a running instance, memory and disk, with its running processes and services | No separate backup product on the pages we read |
| Uno | Made each time the computer falls asleep: memory and disk of that moment | A copy of the disk once a day on every paid plan, kept 7 days |
How long a saved state is kept
Days a copy stays before it is removed. Uno's sleep snapshot is not on the chart: it lasts while the computer sleeps.
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Show as a table
| Option | days | Shape |
|---|---|---|
| Uno daily copy | 7 | Off the server, locked for the same 7 days |
| Hetzner Cloud backups | 7 | Seven daily slots, the oldest deleted first |
| Modal memory snapshot | 7 | Experimental, ends the sandbox |
| Modal filesystem snapshot | 30 | Files only |
Which one saves you from what
| What went wrong | Snapshot | Backup |
|---|---|---|
| You deleted the wrong folder a minute ago | if you took one just before | only as old as the last copy |
| The server's disk died | usually dies with it | restores on a new server |
| A bad deploy, noticed two days later | only if you kept an old one | if the copy is old enough |
| You want the machine to resume where it stopped | if it holds memory | starts from the disk, programs begin again |
On Uno the sleep snapshot answers the fourth row and the daily copy answers the second and third. Open the Backups tab on the computer's page. Restore as new makes a new computer from a copy and leaves the current one as it is.
Uno API
# copies of computer 42 $ curl -s https://console.uno.place/api/v1/boxes/42/backups \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNO_API_KEY"
Where Uno is worse
- The daily copy comes once a day, so you can lose up to a day of changes: no hourly copies.
- A copy holds the disk only. A restored computer boots from the copied disk, so its programs start again.
- Once a computer is deleted, its daily copies can no longer be restored. Restore as new first if you need something.
- Copies count against your cloud storage, and the new computer made by a restore has to fit in your plan.
- Morph snapshots a running VM, memory included, whenever you ask. A Uno copy is the disk, taken once a day.
- Uno Work does not show the copies yet, only the console does.
Daily copies on every paid plan
Pick the size. Each plan copies its computers once a day and keeps each copy for 7 days.
Small
A Telegram bot, a VPN, a small backend
$5/ month
- 1 vCPU · 1 GB
- 15 GB disk
- 25 GB cloud storage
- 5 boosts a month
Plus
Agents that work with your laptop closed
$20/ month
- 4 vCPU · 4 GB
- 40 GB disk
- 100 GB cloud storage
- Uno Work in the cloud
Pro
A product in production, a second MacBook
$70/ month
- 16 vCPU · 16 GB
- 120 GB disk
- 300 GB cloud storage
- Speed of a MacBook Air M4
Max
A team and many agents at once
$200/ month
- 32 vCPU · 48 GB
- 300 GB disk
- 1,024 GB cloud storage
- 5 public IPv4
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