Monitoring and managing Backup & restore service from OpenShift Container Platform

The Backup locations are either Active or inactive. The Active refers to the connected location status and inactive refers to not connected.

Backed up applications

Applications with assigned policies

Not backed up applications

Applications without assigned policies

Backup completed

Applications that are backed up and its recent or latest backup was successful (Completed or PartiallyFailed)

Backup failed

Applications that are backed up and recent or backup was not successful.

You can search a backup policy record by its name from the list.

• Edit backup policy
• Edit YAML
• Delete backup policy

1. Click Create backup policy.

   The Create BackupPolicy page is displayed.

2. Enter the following details of the policy:
   • Enter the Policy name of the policy.
   • In the Backup location section, select whether you want In place snapshot or Object storage. If you select Object storage, then select the Location from the drop down list.
   • Select the Backup schedule for the backup. In Schedule, select the frequency. In At, select the time. In Time zone, select your zone.
   • In the Retention period, select number for Schedule and Duration in Days, Weeks, Months or Years. It is the duration to retain the backup.
3. Click Create.

• Edit credentials
  1. Update Endpoint, Access key, or Secret key values.
  2. Click Save.
• Edit YAML opens in YAML format. You can make changes and click Save.
• Remove backup location

  In the confirmation window, click Remove to proceed with deletion.

If you plan to use a certificate for a S3 compliant backup storage location, then as a prerequisite create a secret with the certificate as a prerequisite. For the procedure to create a secret, see Creating a secret.

1. Click Create backup location.
2. Enter the details about the backup location:
   • Enter the Name of the backup location.
   • Select the Location Type of the backup location.

     The different location types are IBM Cloud (IBM Object Storage), Azure (Microsoft Object Storage), AWS (Amazon Object Storage), Spectrum Protect, and S3Compliant (Any Object Storage).

     Enter the following credentials to connect IBM Fusion to your backup location: Endpoint, Path/Bucket, Access key, and Secret key.

     If the location is Amazon Web Services, then you must also enter the Region. If the location is Microsoft Azure (Microsoft Object Storage), then enter the Account name and Account key instead of Access key and Secret key.

   • In the Certificate setting (optional), enter the Secret name for certificate.

Here, the Backup status indicates the outcome of the most recent backup performed for an application. The Success rate indicates the number of successful backups performed for the application. It also indicates the availability of backup copies.

• Assign backup policy
• Restore
  It opens a Restore window.

  1. In the Select a project destination section, select from the following options:

     Use the same project the application is already using

     Select the project in the current cluster where the application gets restored to. Restoring to an existing cluster delete the contents of the project and replaces it with the restored application.

     Use existing project

     Create new project

     If you select Create a new project, then enter a new project.

     Note: If you choose Existing project or Create new project, you can only specify a single namespace.You cannot restore multiple namespaces to a single alternate namespace.

  2. Select a backup from the available list of backups.
  3. Optionally, select Include missing etc resource to restore any etc resources that are not present in the existing OpenShift project.
  4. Select the PVCs. By default, all PVCs in the back are restored. If you want to restore only certain volumes, then you can select individual PVCs.
  5. Click Restore.

If you plan to use a certificate for a S3 compliant backup storage location, then as a prerequisite create a secret with the certificate as a prerequisite. For the procedure to create a secret, see Creating a secret.

1. Click Assign backup policy. Alternatively, you can also click Assign backup policy from the ellipsis overflow menu of an application record.

   You can search for backup policy and filter records.

2. Select one or more polices.
3. If you want to initiate a backup right away, set the Run backup now toggle button to on.
4. Click Assign.

If you set the Run backup now toggle button is set to on, the Backup status of the application in the Applications page is initially New. It then changes to Queued, Inventory in progress, Snapshot inprogress, and Complete. You can also check the Backup & Restore Jobs list in the Jobs tab page for similar status.

You can filter the records based on Status and Operation. The Operation values are Backup and Restore.

You can select a field and enter keywords in the Search to filter records.

You can also choose to view the list of jobs in last 24 hours, last 7 Days, or last 30 days.

• Delete backup job

  If you click Delete backup job, a confirmation window appears. If you are sure to delete the job, click Delete.

• Collect logs

  Click Collect logs to go to the Jobs page of the IBM Fusion user interface. In the Jobs page, click Collect logs.

• Job summary

  Click Jobs summary to go to the Jobs page of the IBM Fusion user interface. Here, you can view details like Summary (Inventory and Backup sequence) and Details (Duration, Created, Size, Policy, Application. Backup ID, Backup location).