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Manual Backups

Manual backups are one-time backup operations that you create on-demand without associating a schedule policy. Unlike scheduled backups that run at regular intervals, manual backups provide flexibility to back up your data whenever you need it. This is ideal for protecting critical data before major changes, deployments, or maintenance windows.

Manual backups offer immediate control over your backup operations. You can create a manual backup at any time to capture the current state of your namespaces or virtual machines (VMs). Portworx Backup supports various backup destinations including object stores like Amazon S3, NFS shares, and other S3-compliant storage systems. You can also apply advanced configurations such as cross-cloud backup, snapshot class mapping, and pre-exec/post-exec rules to customize your backup behavior.

Portworx Backup manual backups provide the following capabilities:

  • On-demand protection: create backups whenever you need them without waiting for a schedule
  • Flexible destinations: back up to object stores, NFS shares, or S3-compliant storage systems
  • Advanced configurations: apply cross-cloud backup settings, snapshot class mapping, and custom rules
  • Resource selection: choose specific namespaces, VMs, or resources to include in your backup
  • Object lock support: secure your backups with object lock enabled backups for compliance and ransomware protection
  • Partial success handling: continue backups with available resources even if some are unavailable

📄️ Create a Manual Backup

This topic provides instructions for creating a manual backup using Portworx Backup. A manual backup is a one-time backup that is created without a schedule policy. It explains how to back up namespaces or virtual machines (VMs) and store them on object stores like S3 or NFS. The guide covers options like cross-cloud backup, snapshot class mapping, and applying pre-exec and post-exec rules. It also addresses handling backups with large resources and partial success scenarios, ensuring reliable backup and recovery for Kubernetes applications.

📄️ Create Object Lock Enabled Manual Backup

This topic provides instructions on how to configure an object lock enabled manual backup in Portworx Backup for securing data in S3-compliant object stores. Object lock ensures that data cannot be modified or deleted during a defined retention period, offering protection from ransomware attacks and unauthorized changes. The guide explains how to set retention modes (governance and compliance) and configure backups, as well as the necessary permissions and configurations required for object lock. This feature is useful for ensuring long-term data protection and compliance in Kubernetes environments.