Backup and restore of IBM Cloud Pak for Data to the same or different cluster

IBM Cloud Pak for Data is now integrated with IBM Storage Fusion , which enables you to create online backups and to restore them to the same cluster or to a different cluster.

Note: IBM Cloud Pak for Data supports backup and restore on both x86 and Power.

To create IBM Cloud Pak for Data backups with IBM Storage Fusion , see Creating and scheduling online backups of Cloud Pak for Data with IBM Storage Fusion.

To restore IBM Cloud Pak for Data online backup and restore to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion , see Cloud Pak for Data online backup and restore to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion.

To restore IBM Cloud Pak for Data backups to a different cluster with IBM Storage Fusion , see Cloud Pak for Data online backup and restore to a different cluster with IBM Storage Fusion.

Remember: IBM Cloud Paks instance backups cannot be created when continuous backup is enabled on the MongoDB service.

Note: You can restore backup data to a different StorageClass provisioner on an alternate cluster, for example, restore data that was originally backed-up from a CephFS provisioned StorageClass to a Scale provisioned StorageClass.

The Restore CR includes an optional spec field, targetStorageClass where you can specify a specific storage class for the restore. It is only available through manually created Restore CRs from the command line.

If the targetStorageClass is not provided, the same storage class as the backup is attempted for the restore.
If the targetStorageClass field is not provided and the same storage class as the backup is not available, the default storage class of the system is used.

The targetStorageClass is not supported for IBM Cloud Pak for Data.