Working with Portworx Backup

Applicable to both Classic and Federated modes

The topics in this section provide instructions for using the various Portworx Backup components to add clusters, create, and restore backups.

🗃Cloud Settings in Portworx Backup

Learn how to configure cloud accounts and their associated backup locations in Portworx Backup.

🗃Configure Policies

This topic explains how to manage policies in Portworx Backup, including Schedule Policies for regular backup automation and Volume Resource-Only Policies (VROP) for backing up configuration without data.

🗃Add Backup Rules

This topic explains how to create and configure backup rules in Portworx Backup to ensure application-consistent backups. Pre-exec and post-exec rules can be applied to freeze or unfreeze I/O operations during the backup process. The guide covers setting up rules with pod selectors, container names, and actions, and provides options to run rules in the background or apply them to a single pod for lead-based applications. It also details how to add sub-rules for complex operations, ensuring flexibility and automation in the backup process.

🗃Manage Clusters

Manage cluster related activities.

🗃Create and restore backups

Learn how to create and restore backups using Portworx Backup. This guide helps you determine backup requirements, set up backup rules, schedule backups, and perform restore operations.

🗃Share Portworx Backup Resources

How to share single backups and all backups of a cluster with users and groups

🗃Label Backups and Resources

This topic explains how labels work in Portworx Backup for backups, namespaces, resources, and VMs. It covers how to apply, filter, and manage labels using the Portworx Backup web console, allowing users to organize entities with key-value pair labels. Labels enable better management of backups and resources, as well as automate backup processes for new namespaces, resources, or VMs with preset labels.

🗃Delete Backups

Learn how to delete single or multiple backups in Portworx Backup, including standard and NFS backups, using parallel deletion and concurrency control for efficient storage management.

🗃Delete stranded resources

Learn how to delete stranded backup resources in Portworx Backup