Backing up and restoring Developer Portal on OpenShift and Cloud Pak for Integration

Before you can initiate a backup or restore operation, you must update the Portal CR (custom resource) to configure your settings. Generating a backup for Portal is performed on demand by deploying a backup CR. You can deploy a restore CR to start the restoration of a previously generated backup.

For points to consider when you are backing up and restoring a two data center disaster recovery deployment, see Backup and restore considerations for a two data center deployment.

The default Developer Portal backup schedule is once every 24 hours, but the schedule can be changed in the backup settings. The Developer Portal saves all system and site backups locally, and also saves them remotely based on the configured SFTP and s3 settings.

The local backups are automatically maintained so that the latest three backups of each site and of the system are kept, and older backups are removed. This maintenance means that the Developer Portal retains the latest three backups for each site and for the system however old they are, but there is no deletion of the old backups on the remote server. If a site is deleted, then all of the local backups for that site are also deleted, as otherwise the backup volume might become full of old site backups. For remote backups, you can configure a retention policy on your remote server to remove the old backup files as required.