Creating backup of Control Plane and restoring it

The Backup and Restore Manager in the CDP Private Cloud Data Services Management Console helps you to backup and restore Kubernetes namespaces and resources on Embedded Container Service (ECS) and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). You can also restore and delete the backups.

Ensure that the following prerequisites are complete:

You must have the PowerUser role.
For OCP, ensure that a VolumeSnapshotClass is installed with a CSI driver that matches the CSI driver for the storage class used.

The following steps show how to create a backup of the Kubernetes namespaces and resources in the Control Plane, restore a backup, and to delete a backup.

Go to the CDP Private Cloud Data Services Management Console > Dashboard page.
To create a backup, perform the following steps:
1. Click Create Backup in the Backup Overview section to create the first backup.
  For subsequent backups, click View Details > Backup and Restore Manager > New Backup to create a backup.
2. Enter a unique Backup Name and choose the Backup Entity that you want to back up in the Create Backup modal window.
3. Click Create.
  This initiates the backup event and generates a backupCRN. The backupCRN appears as a CRN on the Backups tab in the Backup and Restore Manager that you can click to view the backup event details.
To restore a backup, perform the following steps:
1. Go to the Backup and Restore Manager > Backups tab.
2. Click Actions > Restore, and then click OK in the Restore modal window to acknowledge that you want to restore the backup.
  Alternatively, click the CRN of the required backup; click Restore on the Backup [***name of backup***] modal window, and then click OK to acknowledge that you want to restore the backup.
important
Do not delete the [***CDP_INSTALLATION_NAMESPACE***]-drs namespace while the restore event is in progress. For example, if the CDP Private Cloud Data Services installation is located in the cdp namespace, the data recovery service namespace is automatically named cdp-drs.
To delete a backup, perform the following steps:
1. Go to the Backup and Restore Manager > Backups tab.
2. Click Actions > Delete, and then click OK in the Delete modal window to acknowledge that you want to delete the backup.
  Alternatively, click the CRN of the required backup; click Delete on the Backup [***name of backup***] modal window; and then click OK to acknowledge that you want to delete the backup.