Scheduling a backup by using the CLI

Schedule a backup of the orchestration data or application logging data to run at regular intervals. You can schedule backups from the OpenShift® CLI. You specify the schedule in the cron format.

Procedure

Create a YAML file with content similar to the following sample:
```
apiVersion: tnc.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: OrchestrationBackup
metadata:
  name: cp4na-scheduledbackup-sample
spec:
  schedule:
    schedule: "0 0 23 * * *"
    immediate: true
    suspend: false
```
Note: To back up application log data, set the value of spec.type to Opensearch, as shown in this example:
```
apiVersion: tnc.ibm.com/v1beta1
kind: OrchestrationBackup
metadata:
    name: cp4na-scheduledbackup-sample
spec:
    type: Opensearch
    schedule:
      schedule: "0 0 23 * * *"
      immediate: true
      suspend: false
```
If you do not configure the spec.type setting, or if you set its value to Backup, orchestration data is backed up.
Restriction: In active-active configurations of IBM® Cloud Pak for Network Automation, orchestration data is replicated across clusters, but application logging data is not. As a result, each application logging data backup contains only the logging data from the cluster where you created the backup.
To back up application logging data for all clusters in your active-active configuration, create a backup on each cluster.

Specify the details of the schedule in the spec.schedule section, as described in the following table:

Key	Description
`schedule`	Use the cron format to specify the schedule. The first field specifies seconds. For example, the cron schedule `"0 0 23 * * *"` from the sample in step 1 schedules a backup to run every day at 11:00 PM. For more information about schedules in cron format, see Cron format schedules.
`immediate`	To run a backup immediately after the schedule is created, set to `true`.
`suspend`	To pause the scheduled backups, set to `true`.

Run the following command to apply the YAML file:
```
oc apply -f <filename>
```
Run the following command to view the backup you created:
```
oc get OrchestrationBackup
```

Results

Run the following command to view a list of the backups that are completed or are running:

oc get OrchestrationBackup

Use the output of the command to check whether backups are being created according to the schedule.

This command also shows the status of the backup. If the phase value of a backup is completed, the data was saved to S3 storage successfully.