Restoring an API Connect cloud
You can revert to a previous configuration of your IBM® API Connect on-premises cloud by restoring servers that have been backed up.
About this task
This procedure describes how to restore an entire API Connect cloud from backup, eliminating any existing Management servers and replacing them with Management servers captured at a previous time. As a result, the contents of the API Connect cloud, such as Users, APIs, and Products, are reverted to their state at the time of backup.
For VMware, restore the appropriate snapshot or backup, depending on the mechanism that you originally used to back up the virtual machine.
Note: If you restore only a subset of the Management
servers in your cloud, the servers that are not restored cannot continue
to run alongside the restored servers. Therefore, for best results,
restore all Management servers. If, however, you do not restore
all Management servers, the cloud can function provided that you restore
the following minimal subset of servers:
- The Management server that was the primary server at the time of the backup operation.
- At least half of the Management servers that were secondary servers at the time of the backup operation.