Managing applications backups

From the Backed up applications page, you can monitor the Backup status, enroll new applications for backup, view application details, manage policies, initiate backup jobs, and restore backed up applications.

Section Description
Backup status

From the Backup status section, you can select the range of clusters that you want to monitor. The output is represented pictorially in a circular chart with a legend for reference. The chart shows how much percentage of backup is completed, in progress, canceled, and failed.

Application list

The Applications page lists all your OpenShift® applications with their backup details, such as Name, Cluster, Backup status, Last backup on, Success rate, Policies, and Backup capacity.
Protect applications When you set up your backup hub and spoke initially, the application list is empty. For the procedure to populate the application list or add protection to applications, see Selecting applications for protection.
Search records You can search the records by using any of the following methods:
  • Filter records based on Cluster or Status.
  • Enter key words in the Search text to search the table.
Actions on an application record You can select one more more applications at a time. The following options are available in the ellipsis overflow menu:
  • View details

    If the application is in the local cluster, then the application details page is displayed. For more information about the application details page, see Managing the application details.

    If the application is in a remote spoke cluster, then the application details include the following details:
    • Usage section having Available backups and used capacity in GiB.
    • Backup policies section where you can view the assigned policies. Backup policies section of an application from an Agent cluster allows to assign or remove policies.
    • List of backups available for the application. It includes Time, Status, Policy, Location, and Size (GiB) columns.

      From the ellipsis overflow menu of individual backups, you can View details, Restore, and Delete.

      The following batch operations can be done on the backup records:
      • Restore

        Click Restore to restore all the backups of the selected remote cluster application.

        Completed and unexpired backups of applications with an object storage location can be restored. In place snapshots cannot be restored because they are stored on a cluster that was disconnected. However, backups with object storage location like S3 can be restored to another cluster.

        If you want to restore object storage or S3 backup after the removal of the connection, then the following notification appears in the Restore application page:
        Original cluster removed
The original cluster where this app was deployed, has been removed. To restore this application, choose a new cluster from the list below.
      • Backup now

        From the Actions submenu, click Backup now to initiate an immediate backup of the application. The option is disabled for an remote application wherein the Agent or Spoke connection is removed.

      • Manage policies

        Click Manage policies to manage policies for an application and initiate backup now. For more details about the procedure, see Managing backup policy.

    This option is available only when you select a single application.

  • Backup now

    Click Backup now to initiate an immediate backup of one or more applications. For more details about the procedure, see Backup now.

  • Restore

    Restores an application. This option is available only when you select a single application.

    After you remove a Agent or Spoke connection from the Hub cluster, it does not show up in the Topology page. Also, you can restore the available (not expired) successful application backups with an object storage location from that cluster to a different cluster.
    If you want to restore object storage or S3 backup after the removal of the connection, then the following notification appears in the Restore application page:
    Cluster removed
This application no longer has a connected cluster. To restore this application, choose a new cluster from the list.
  • Delete

    For failed records, choose the Delete option. For other backups, manually create and issue a DeleteBackupRequest CR.