Quick start and explore the Backup & Restore service
The Overview page provides quick links to the important Backup & Restore service tasks to protect your applications from data corruption and loss.
Get started
From the Get started pane, you can quickly add locations, create policies, and assign a policy to your applications.
- Step 1: Connect your cluster
- Create connections to the clusters that you provide backup services for. If you are only backing up applications in this cluster, you can skip this step. Use any of the following methods to generate the YAML. For more information about the options, see Connect clusters.
- Step 2: Connect backup locations
- Connect S3 compatible object storage locations that stores the backups.
- Step 3: Create backup policies
- Define backup frequency, storage location, and how long they are retained.
- Step 4: Protect your applications
- Assign backup policies to your applications.
- Step 5: Protect your Backup & Restore service
- Protect the backup service by backing up the control plane to an S3 bucket. You can restore the backup service in another cluster in the event that this cluster fails.
Explore capabilities
- Application resiliency
- Backup applications so they can be recovered in the event of cluster loss, data loss, or corruption. See Data protection.
- Application mobility
- Move applications between different clusters by utilizing Hub & Spoke cluster configurations. Application backups taken in one cluster can be restored to a separate cluster. See Restoring an application.
- Isolate your systems
- Remote S3 backup location separates access between backups and applications. Your backups are not compromised even when a workload cluster is compromised. See Backup & Restore.
- Orchestrate a backup or restore
- Use a custom, application-specific recipe to consistently automate and control the required backup or restore sequence of an application. See Orchestrate a backup or restore.