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Version: 2.8

Backups

Home page → Left navigation pane → Clusters → (cluster-name) → Backups

Page Overview​

The Backups page displays the backup details of namespaces and VMs of the selected Kubernetes cluster in separate tabs.

Page Components​

The page components are further broken down to:

  1. NS/VM View tab Located directly below the top navigation tab.

  • NS (Namespace): lists out the backups assocaited with namespaces

  • VM (Virtual Machines): to switch to virtual machine-based view and this tab lists out the backups of VMs of the chosen cluster

  1. Search and Filters

  2. Search by Backup Name: a search box that allows you to search for the required backups by their name. When you key-in a search string and hit enter, the backup table displays only the backups that match the string you entered

  3. Search by Backup label: : a search box to provide backup labels, When you key-in a pre-applied backup label either in key:value or key=value format and hit enter, backup table below displays only the backups that match the entered labels. Please note that = and : act as same operators for labels

  4. Backup table:

  • Selection check box: the check box in the header row of the table selects all backup when checked and those before each row selects the backup next to them

  • Notification icon: notifies the user on the status of the backup completion, it can display the following statuses:

    • In-Progress
    • Success
    • Partial success
    • Failed
    • Deleting
    • Delete pending

  • NAME: displays name of the backup you provided during creation of the backup

  • BACKUP LABELS: displays the labels you applied to the backup either during creation of backup or with Edit option

  • LOCATION: lists the backup location on which the respective backup resides

  • NAMESPACES: lists the namespaces that are backed up in each backup

  • SIZE: lists the storage space the backups have consumed on the backup location

  • VOLUMES: lists the number and type of volumes backed up in each backup

  • RESOURCES: lists the number of resources backed up in each backup

  • CREATE TIME: the timestamp when the backup was started

  • COMPLETED TIME: the timestamp when the backup was completed

  • OWNER: lists the user who has initiated the backup operation

  • Clock icon: this icon is displayed only for scheduled backups to indicate that the backup is scheduled to run in specified intervals (daily, weekly, monthly and so on)

  • Vertical ellipsis: located at the end of each backup row, this gives a bunch of option to the user to dig more on the granular details of the backup as given below:

    • View Json: displays detailed metadata of the backup
    • Show Details: shows necessary details like namespaces, volumes and resources that are backed up along with some backup metadata
    • Restore: provides an option to restore the backed up data
    • Share: allows you to share the backup with intended users and groups
    • Edit: allows you to edit the backup to add, modify, or delete the labels
    • Duplicate: provides you an option to make a copy of the backup
    • Retry: gives an option to retry the partially successful namespace or VM type failed backups. If the user finds that certain number of volumes have failed during a multi-namespace or multi-VM backup, they can retrigger the backup operation on the partially successful or failed namespaces/VMs backups with this option. PXB creates a fresh backup here. The name of the new backup will be of the following format:
      Failed backup name + retry + timestamp
    note

    If all the volumes are in succeeded state, retry option does not trigger a new backup.

    • Remove: you can delete the backup with this option
  1. Pagination control: navigational controls to move through different pages of the backup list.
note

VM tab for backups will have same components like NS tab.

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