You can temporarily revert your ILSA instance to a previous state. We will serve all API requests as we did at the chosen timestamp. We’ll use the configuration and vehicles from that moment.
Snapshots are intended for emergencies only. For example if you accidentally made a config change that causes your site implementation to crash, or if one of your enrichers started returning bad results.
- Vehicles added since the snapshot will disappear from your site.
- Vehicles changed since the snapshot will show the old data.
- Vehicles removed since the snapshot will reappear on your site.
- Vehicles will not be added, updated or removed until normal operations are resumed.
- Config changes are not effective until you resume normal operations.
- The Backoffice will show the latest configuration, not the configuration you’re serving with.
Because this is an emergency only mechanism, DV and your advertisers will not be informed that your site is showing stale data. DV will tell advertisers that their vehicle is advertised/updated/removed, even though the snapshot might not have contained those changes.
You can pin a snapshot in the backoffice. Pinning a snapshot is like restoring a backup, except that it will only be temporary.
Ocassionally we change our datafile format in incompatible ways. In those rare cases you might not be able to restore older snapshots. The Backoffice will clearly indicate if this is the case.
Feel free to contact us if you need help resolving your emergency.