Restoring an offline backup of a Cloud Pak for Data deployment

You can restore an IBM Cloud Pak® for Data deployment from a Ceph® Container Storage Interface (CSI) volume snapshot or Restic backup.

Restoring an offline backup prerequisite tasks
For some services, you must complete prerequisite tasks before you can restore an IBM Cloud Pak for Data deployment with the OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP) backup and restore utility.
Restoring a snapshot of a Cloud Pak for Data instance
You can restore a Ceph Container Storage Interface (CSI) snapshot of an entire IBM Cloud Pak for Data instance.
Restoring an offline Restic backup of a Cloud Pak for Data instance
You can restore a Restic backup of an entire IBM Cloud Pak for Data instance that is stored on an S3-compatible object store.
Post-restore tasks after restoring an offline backup
For some services, additional tasks must be done after you restore Cloud Pak for Data from an offline backup.

Parent topic: Cloud Pak for Data offline backup and restore (OADP utility)