Create a Backup
After creating any backup rules and schedule policies you want, you can use them to create a manual backups or scheduled backups with any object store or NFS share backup target.
Portworx Essentials license limitations apply to Portworx Backup. Therefore, if your cluster is running on Portworx Essentials, you can back up a maximum of one cloud snapshot per day, per volume to cloud storage. Refer to the Portworx Essentials page for more information about the supported features and limitations.
NFS-based backup location supports generic, manual, and scheduled backups.
Starting from Portworx Backup version 2.6.0, users cannot take a backup of kube-system, kube-node-lease, kube-public namespace and the namespace where Portworx is installed for any of the cluster environments that Portworx Backup currently supports.
Ensure that the cluster is in active and not in disconnected status before creating a backup of your application data.
Following topics take you through the steps for creating manual and scheduled backups:
📄️ Create a manual backup
Manual backup is one time backup you create in Portworx Backup without associating any schedule policy to the backup.
📄️ Create a scheduled backup
To create a scheduled backup of your namespace:
📄️ Create a cross cloud backup
Portworx Backup utilizes KDMP driver to trigger a cross cloud backup. To create cross cloud backup (also referred to as direct KDMP backup) of your namespace:
📄️ Create a CSI backup
Portworx Backup has deprecated the support for cloud native drivers from version 2.7.0 and above to streamline the backup creation process involving multiple drivers. Portworx Backup internally uses either CSI driver or KDMP driver or both to create backups and offers more flexibility to the users in backup creation process.