Add NFS backup locations

Portworx Backup lets you add the following on premises or cloud-based NFS shares as backup locations:

• On-premises NFS backup location
  • Generic on premises NFS share
  • FlashArray (FA)
  • FlashBlade (FB)
• Cloud-based NFS backup location
  • EFS volumes
  • GCP NFS Filestore
  • Azure NFS file share

Prerequisites

• (Optional, applicable for Portworx Backup with Portworx Enterprise) Ensure that you are on Portworx 2.13.6 and above or 3.0.0 and above version.

• Ensure that Stork version 23.6.0 and above is installed on all application clusters.

Follow these topics to learn more on configuring and adding these backup locations:

📄️ Add generic on premises NFS backup location

Portworx Backup now allows you to add your Network File System (NFS) shares on your on premises storage environment as a backup target. This feature enables you to leverage your existing NFS storage infrastructure to back up and restore your application data. Portworx Backup supports NFS backup location based on NFSv4.

📄️ Add cloud-based NFS backup locations

Portworx Backup allows you to add your cloud-based NFS targets as backup location. Refer the below topics to add EFS, GCP, and Azure cloud-based NFS targets as backup locations in your Portworx Backup.

📄️ Add FlashArray NFS backup location

Portworx Backup lets you add NFS shares created with FlashArray (FA) user interface as backup location. FA File is a service activated on a FlashArray, offering the capability to establish an NFS filesystem on the array utilizing backend block storage.

📄️ Add FlashBlade NFS backup location

Portworx Backup allows you to add NFS File systems created with FlashBlade (FB) web console as backup location. FB file system is a service activated on FlashBlade, offering the capability to establish an NFS file system using the backend block storage.