Backup & Restore of your workloads

The Backup & Restore service is designed to protect a wide range of workloads, including virtual machines, Kubernetes applications, AI workloads, and various IBM Cloud Paks. Additionally, it can also back up the Backup & Restore data management service to an S3 bucket.

Backup of application and VMs: The workload includes the following data:
  • PVs of the deployed workloads
  • Namespace and cluster scope resources for deployed workloads
  • Application VMs that use filesystem based PVCs are backed up and restored.
    Important: To backup application VMs, ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
    • Bare Metal cluster is available
    • OpenShift Virtualization feature is installed from the Operator Hub of OpenShift® Container Platform console.

    Support is available for VMs based on Filesystem PVCs (PersistentVolume has the volumeMode: Filesystem defined). The Block mode volumes (volumeMode: Block) support is also available.

    Note: The Backup & Restore uses Velero hooks that are present on an application or resource. This means that if your application has hooks, then they are automatically run by Velero at the time of backup or restore.

For more information about OpenShift Container Platform applications, see https://docs.openshift.com/.