Back up data and essential deployment information so that you can use it to recover your
deployment after a disaster.
About this task
Make sure to store all backups and deployment information to a secure location where you can
access it after a disaster. You cannot recover a deployment without the information that you collect
during this task.
Important: If you update any of your subsystem CRs or secrets,
ensure that you take new backups of them.
Procedure
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Backup the Analytics subsystem database.
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Configure the Analytics subsystem for
backups.
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Perform a backup of the Analytics
subsystem.
Note: Be sure to specify indices: all
when you backup the Analytics database.
Backing up a full set of indices ensures that your complete Analytics configuration, event data, and
custom UI configuration (such as custom dashboards) can be restored.
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Get the name of the newest Analytics backup and save it for reference during a recovery.
Run the following command to list the Analytics backups:
oc get analyticsbackup -n <APIC-namespace>
The response looks like the following example; the newest backup is the one with the smallest
AGE
:
NAME STATUS ID CR TYPE INDICES AGE COMMENT
a7s-bup-266p8 Ready create [all] 20h y
a7s-bup-pffdh Ready create [all] 34h y
analytics-bup-kxwq5 Ready analytics-all-2020-09-07t03:49:15utc record [ui apievents config] 34h
analytics-bup-p29z8 Ready analytics-all-2020-09-07t18:04:03utc record [ui apievents config] 20h
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Copy all of the information that you saved to a secure location.