Creating an offline backup of a Cloud Pak for Data deployment

You can back up an IBM Cloud Pak® for Data deployment by creating snapshots or Restic backups.

  1. If Cloud Pak for Data is installed on Ceph® Container Storage Interface (CSI) volumes, you can create volume snapshots.
  2. You can create Restic backups on an S3-compatible object store.

    Restic is a file system copying technique that is used by OpenShift® APIs for Data Protection (OADP), based on the Restic open source project. Under OADP, Restic backups support producing backups only to S3-compatible object stores.

CSI volume snapshots and Restic backups copy both volume data and Kubernetes metadata.

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