Backing up an Cloudera AI Workbench preserves all files, models, applications, and other
assets in the workbench, although files in external NFS-backed workbenches are not backed up
by Cloudera AI automatically.
In the Workbenches UI, find the workbench to back up. The
workbench must be in the Installation completed state,
otherwise backup is disabled.
Enter the workbench, and manually stop all workloads (sessions, jobs,
applications, and models).
For external NFS backed workbenches, manually back up the configured external
NFS data to another location. This manual backup of the NFS data will be used
when this particular backup is restored in future. Ignore this step if the
workbench is configured with internal NFS, as internal NFS data is backed up and
restored automatically by Cloudera AI.
In the Actions menu for that workbench, select
Backup Workbench.
In the Backup Workbench modal, enter a Backup
Name to identify the workbench, and enter an appropriate timeout
value.
Click Backup to start the process.
The workbench shuts down, and the backup process begins. The workbench state changes
to reflect the ongoing backup progress. If necessary, click
Cancel to cancel the backup process. The backup process can
take some time to complete, depending on the amount of data to copy.
Monitoring event logs
You can monitor the progress of the backup process by checking the event logs. In the
Actions menu for the workbench, click View
Event Logs, and then on the Events & Logs
tab, click View Event Logs again for the latest backup event.
When the backup process completes, the workbench enters the Installation completed
state again.
If there were issues during backup, appropriate error messages will be displayed in
the event logs. However the workbench will recover from failure and will be reverted
back to the original state when backup was triggered.
