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Scheduled Backups

Scheduled backups automate your backup operations by running at specified intervals, ensuring consistent and reliable data protection without manual intervention. With Portworx Backup, you can create backup schedules that run daily, weekly, or monthly, protecting your namespaces and virtual machines (VMs) on a regular basis.

Key Benefits of Scheduled Backups​

Scheduled backups automate your backup operations, eliminating manual intervention and ensuring your critical data is protected on a regular basis. They are ideal for production environments where consistent, predictable backup cycles are essential. You can customize backup frequency, target resources, and backup locations to match your specific requirements and compliance policies.

Portworx Backup scheduled backups offer the following capabilities:

  • Flexible scheduling: support for daily, weekly, and monthly backup frequencies
  • Resource management: configure backup locations, storage classes, and resource mappings
  • Advanced options: define pre-exec and post-exec rules, add labels, and apply cross-cloud backup settings
  • Resilience: handle missing namespaces gracefully with partial success backups

📄️ Create a Scheduled Backup

This topic provides instructions for creating a scheduled backup using Portworx Backup. It explains how to back up namespaces or virtual machines (VMs) at specified intervals, allowing for automated backup creation. Users can configure the backup location, apply cross-cloud backup settings, map volume snapshot classes, and define pre-exec and post-exec rules. The topic also covers associating a schedule policy, enabling regular backups on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, and adding backup labels for easier management and searchability.