Using an external backup location

You can use S3 locations in Ozone, in AWS buckets, or in both as external backup locations to backup and restore Kubernetes namespaces and resources on Cloudera Embedded Container Service (ECS) and OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) for the Control Plane. You can add the external location in the "Backup and Restore" tab on the "Administration" page

The Backup Manager can use an external location to save the backups after you add the external location in the Cloudera Management Console > Administration > Backup and Restore tab. The Backup Manager uses Kopia to externally back up the persistent volume claims to the Ozone and AWS buckets. The Kopia repository saves the backups with the cloudera-backups prefix within the bucket.

The following details appear for each external backup location, that you add, on the Backup and Restore tab:

• Creation Status shows the Kopia repository creation status.

  If the creation status fails, the Failed status appears with a View Log link that you can click to view more details about the failure.

• Location Name shows the name that you specified during the creation process.
• External Bucket Name shows the external bucket name that you specified during the creation process.
• The icon opens the Edit Location side panel.
  You can only edit the Access Key and Secret Key of the external location.
• The icon deletes the external location details and clears the Kopia-related data in the bucket.

  If there are any backups in the external location and you click the delete icon, a message popup appears which notifies you to delete the backups before you delete the location.

The following image shows the Backup and Restore Manager page: