Creating and scheduling online backups of Cloud Pak for Data with IBM Storage Fusion

In combination with the Cloud Pak for Data OADP backup and restore utility, you can create and schedule online backups of a Cloud Pak for Data instance with IBM® Storage Fusion.

Before you begin

Online backup has the following requirements:

  • Cloud Pak for Data is deployed on Red Hat® OpenShift® Data Foundation or IBM Spectrum® Scale storage.
  • All services are installed at the same Cloud Pak for Data release.

    Online backup and restore of a deployment that is running service versions from different Cloud Pak for Data releases is not supported.

  • The Cloud Pak for Data control plane is installed in a single project (namespace).
  • The Cloud Pak for Data instance is installed in zero or more tethered projects.
  • The cpd-cli command line utility, which includes the OADP backup and restore utility, is downloaded.
  • IBM Storage Fusion 2.5.2, which includes IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, is installed.

    For information about installing IBM Storage Fusion 2.5.2, see Deploying IBM Storage Fusion.

  • cpdbr services are installed after IBM Storage Fusion is installed. For more information, see Installing cpdbr services for IBM Storage Fusion integration.
  • Cloud Pak for Data operators and the Cloud Pak for Data instance are in a good state.

    For more information about getting the status of installed components, see Getting the status of installed components.

Important: For services that do not support online backups, you must back up those services separately by using their service-specific backup process before you back up a Cloud Pak for Data instance. For more information about services that do not support online backups, see Services that support backup and restore.

About this task

The backup process backs up the following information:

  • Cloud Pak for Data operators project
  • Cloud Pak for Data instance
  • IBM Storage Fusion project
  • IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog

To schedule online backups, you create scheduled backup policies for the following applications in a sequenced order to ensure that the most recent backups are available for a restore:

  1. Cloud Pak for Data operators
  2. Cloud Pak for Data instance
  3. IBM Storage Fusion project
  4. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog

If you are protecting multiple Cloud Pak for Data instances, create backup policies for each instance. For example, if you are protecting two Cloud Pak for Data instances, create three backup policies: one for the Cloud Pak for Data operators and one for each Cloud Pak for Data instance.

When you schedule each backup policy, you must specify enough time for each policy to complete before the next one is started. However, if you are protecting multiple Cloud Pak for Data instances, their schedules can overlap and start at the same time or near the same time.

In IBM Storage Fusion 2.5.2, you can use only the backup and restore (legacy) service to create backups. For more information about this service, see Backup and Restore (Legacy).

Procedure

  1. In IBM Storage Fusion, create a single backup object storage location for the Cloud Pak for Data, IBM Storage Fusion project, and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog backups.
  2. Create daily backup policies for the Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Storage Fusion applications, and tie them to the backup storage location.

    The policy for the IBM Storage Fusion application must have a start time that is 3 hours after the Cloud Pak for Data policy.

    For more information about IBM Storage Fusion backup policies, see Backup policies.

  3. In the Applications menu, assign the policy to the respective applications.
  4. Back up the Cloud Pak for Data operators project and the Cloud Pak for Data instance project.
  5. Back up the IBM Storage Fusion project (ibm-spectrum-fusion-ns).
  6. In IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, create a daily backup policy for the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog and then back up the catalog.
    1. Select Manage Protection > Policy Overview > Add SLA Policy.
    2. Select the category IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog, and then select Catalog to Object Storage.
    3. Set Start Time to 30 minutes after the IBM Storage Fusion control plane policy.
    4. Go to Manage Protection > IBM Spectrum Protect Plus > Backup.
    5. To assign the policy to the catalog backup, under SLA Policy, select the policy that you created and click Save.
    6. In the SLA Status Policy page, start the backup by clicking the Actions menu and then clicking Start.