Configuring the Cloud Pak for Data OADP backup and restore utility

Important: IBM Cloud Pak® for Data Version 4.8 will reach end of support (EOS) on 31 July, 2025. For more information, see the Discontinuance of service announcement for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.X.

Upgrade to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1 before IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8 reaches end of support. For more information, see Upgrading from IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8 to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1.

Configure the Cloud Pak for Data OADP backup and restore utility before you create and restore backups.

Before you begin

The Cloud Pak for Data command-line interface (cpd-cli) must be installed on the client workstation.

About this task

You can configure the backup and restore utility for air-gapped environments, by using HTTP or HTTPS proxy to connect to external S3 object storage.

In this task, oadp-operator is used as the OADP project (namespace).

Best practice: You can run the commands in this task exactly as written if you set up environment variables. For instructions, see Setting up installation environment variables.

Ensure that you source the environment variables before you run the commands in this task.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as a cluster administrator. 
    ${OC_LOGIN}
    Remember: OC_LOGIN is an alias for the oc login command.
  2. Update the permissions on cpd-cli to enable execute: 
     chmod +x cpd-cli
  3. Configure the client to set the OADP project (namespace) and the IBM Cloud Pak for Data control plane project respectively.
    For example:
    cpd-cli oadp client config set namespace=oadp-operator
    cpd-cli oadp client config set cpd-namespace=${PROJECT_CPD_INST_OPERANDS}