Restoring Cloudera Data Engineering jobs from backup

Before you begin

• You must have a valid backup file to restore from. For instructions on backing up CDE jobs, see Backing up Cloudera Data Engineering jobs.
• Request an access token and save it as an environment variable to use in API calls. For instructions, see Getting a Cloudera Data Engineering API access token.

Steps

1. Determine the API URL for the virtual cluster that you want to restore the jobs and resources to:
   1. Navigate to the Cloudera Data Engineering Overview page.
   2. In the CDE Services column, select the service containing the virtual cluster where you want to restore the jobs.
   3. In the Virtual Clusters column on the right, click the Cluster Details icon for the virtual cluster you want to restore to.
   4. Copy the URL under JOBS API URL, and set it as an environment variable. For example:

      export CDE_JOBS_API="https://pmjkrgn5.cde-czlmkz4y.na-01.xvp2-7p8o.cloudera.site/dex/api/v1"

2. Restore jobs from the backup file by uploading the backup file to the /admin/import endpoint. You can choose how to handle duplicate job names using the duplicatehandling=<policy> parameter. Options are:

   error

   Return an error if there are duplicate job names, and abort the restore operation.

   rename

   If a job name in the backup conflicts with an existing job, keep the existing job and rename the restored job by appending a numerical identifier to the job name.

   keep-original

   If a job name in the backup conflicts with an existing job, keep the existing job and do not restore the backed up job.

   For example, to restore a backup named cde-etl-jobs-backup.zip using the rename duplicate handling policy:

   curl -k \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer ${CDE_TOKEN}" \
   -X POST "${CDE_JOBS_API}/admin/import" \
   -H "accept: application/json" \
   -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
   -F "file=@/path/to/cde-etl-jobs-backup.zip;type=application/zip" \
   -F duplicatehandling=rename \
   | jq