Backing up and restoring Engineering Lifecycle Management applications
You can backup Engineering Lifecycle Management applications configurations and Engineering Lifecycle Management instance Kubernetes object definitions to backup PV. You can restore
application configurations when Engineering Lifecycle Management instance is not in a working state due
to unexpected issues.
Backing up the Engineering Lifecycle Management application by using command line
It is a good practice to take backup of ELM applications configurations periodically. So, when an ELM instance is not working due to some unexpected issues, you can use the existing backup on a persistent volume to restore ELM applications. Here, you can take a backup of the artifacts manually by using command line.
Restoring the Engineering Lifecycle Management application by using command line
After successful backup of the Engineering Lifecycle Management application by using command line, you can restore the Engineering Lifecycle Management application when the existing Engineering Lifecycle Management instance is having some errors that are not recoverable by an operator or by manually.
Backing up the Engineering Lifecycle Management application by using ELMOperation instance
It is a good practice to take backup of Engineering Lifecycle Management applications configurations periodically. So, when an Engineering Lifecycle Management instance is not working due to some unexpected issues, you can use the existing backup on a persistent volume to restore ELM applications. You can create an ELMOperation of type backupELMInstance to take the backup of the Engineering Lifecycle Management application configurations. Engineering Lifecycle Management Operator creates the Engineering Lifecycle Management configuration backup in a persistent volume that you provided and creates a directory structure to store the backup files.
Restoring the Engineering Lifecycle Management application by using ELMOperation instance
After successful backup of the Engineering Lifecycle Management application by using ELMOperation instance, you can restore the Engineering Lifecycle Management application when the existing Engineering Lifecycle Management instance is having some errors that are not recoverable by an operator or by manually.
Restoring Engineering Lifecycle Management applications when the ELM instance does not exist
When an Engineering Lifecycle Management instance or the host cluster is deleted, you can restore the Engineering Lifecycle Management instance by using the per-existed backup.