Backing up an IBM API Connect cloud
You can back up your IBM® API Connect on-premises cloud by using the tools that are provided by your virtualization environment.
About this task
To preserve your data, in case of disaster recovery, you must back up each of the Management appliances that you have defined in your development, test, or production environments. These appliances are defined in the cloud console as Management servers.
The Management servers contain important API Connect details. The details include the record of your organization accounts, the APIs, details of the Products, and the applications that your developers registered that call your APIs.
- For short-term scenarios such as taking a checkpoint immediately before you apply a fix pack upgrade, you can choose to take a VMware snapshot of the instances. You can then delete the snapshot after a few days after you confirm that the changes were successful.
- For long-term backup and restore, consult your VMware administrator about your organizations approach to VMware instance backup.Important: Only the following backup mechanisms are supported:
- Performing a configuration backup; for more information, see Creating a backup of an API Connect configuration.
- Taking a VMware snapshot.
Virtual machine cloning and third-party solutions are not supported.
Procedure
There are two approaches that you can take when backing up your IBM API Connect cloud: offline backup, and online backup.
What to do next
Schedule regular backups of your Management servers.