Comment by dwild
6 years ago
You do the same mistake as the other guy in the twitter thread, you mix Simple Hosting snapshots and the Cloud hosting volume snapshot.
Here the right one which state that they are backup: https://docs.gandi.net/en/cloud/volume_management/volume_sna...
Here's the one that you quote (which isn't the same service): https://docs.gandi.net/en/simple_hosting/common_operations/s...
Be careful next time judging with that little knowledge of the issue.
Interestingly, this page has been edited to add a warning: "A snapshot is a frozen version of your volume that allows you to restore it to a previous state. It should not be regarded as a backup of your volume. If your volume is deleted, all related snapshots will be deleted too."
Here's the page as of earlier today. https://web.archive.org/web/20200109194005/https://docs.gand...