Exporting volumes

You can export a volume to a remote server by SCP.

Before you begin

You must be assigned System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only permission) perform these steps.
You must be assigned one of the following permissions to export volumes:
  • System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only permission)
  • Resource level administration role with Write or All access rights permission (ACL) for a specific instance

About this task

You can use the console, the command line interface, or the REST API to complete this task. For the command line and REST API information, see the Related information section.

Procedure

  1. Click Cloud > Volumes.
    The list of available volumes is displayed in a table format.
  2. Important: You can only export internal block volumes.
    Locate the volume to export, and click the Export icon in the Actions column for the selected volume.
  3. Enter the configuration values in the fields provided:
    Remote host
    The fully qualified host name or IP address of the host system where the exported volume data will be stored.
    Remote port
    The port number for the specified remote host system.
    User name
    The user name with appropriate credentials to access the remote host system.

    Example: Admin, root

    Password
    The password associated with the specified user name.
    Remote path
    The directory path on the remote system where the exported volume data will be stored.

    Example: /export/svg

  4. Click OK to proceed or click Cancel to cancel the export request.
    If you proceed, the volume is exported to the remote system. While the export operation is in progress, the status of the volume changes to Pending. When the process completes, the status changes to Available.