DRS automatic backups (technical preview)

The DRS service can take automatic backups of the Control Plane and Cloudera Data Engineering (CDE) namespaces in the compute cluster of ECS. You can configure the schedule for periodic backup.

You can choose one of the following storage options for DRS automatic backups in ECS:

External storage

ECS uses Longhorn as the underlying storage provisioner. In Longhorn, you can store snapshots externally using an S3 compatible storage such as Ozone or NFS v4. Cloudera recommends that you use external storage for automatic backups in ECS.

In-cluster storage

You can use Longhorn in-cluster storage. It is recommended that you use this option only if the external storage option is not available.

You can initiate the DRS automatic backups using the updateAutoBackupPolicy CDP CLI command. Alternatively, you can edit the automatic-backup (a Kubernetes cron job) to initiate the DRS automatic backups.