Restore
Portworx Backup provides robust capabilities to restore backups across various scenarios, ensuring data recovery and application continuity. Restoring data in Portworx Backup allows users to recover their applications, Kubernetes namespaces, and virtual machines from previously created backups. This process is crucial for disaster recovery, cross-cloud migrations, and maintaining business continuity.
Key restore features
- Application restore – recover applications and their persistent data in Kubernetes.
- Namespace restore – restore an entire Kubernetes namespace with all associated resources.
- VM restore – recover virtual machines from backups, ensuring minimal downtime.
Portworx Backup supports local snapshot restore from version 2.8.3 onwards to allow the users to recover data quickly within the same cluster where the snapshot was originally created. Unlike full backup restores, local snapshot restores leverage on-cluster storage snapshots to provide fast recovery times without transferring large volumes of data.
To restore local snapshots backed up by parallel schedules, please contact Pure Storage support team.
The following topics explain how you can restore different types of backups using Portworx Backup web console:
📄️ Restore a backup
Learn how to restore backups to the same or a different cluster using Portworx Backup. This guide provides detailed steps for the restore process, including namespace and storage class mapping.
📄️ Restore with large number of resources
Learn how to restore backups of namespaces with a large number of resources using Portworx Backup. This guide provides detailed steps for restoring large resource backups efficiently.
📄️ Restore on NFS shares
Learn how to restore backups stored on NFS shares using Portworx Backup. This guide provides detailed steps for restoring application data from NFS backup locations.
📄️ Restore PVCs
Learn how to restore Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) across different storage classes using Portworx Backup. This guide provides detailed steps for selecting and mapping storage classes during the restore process.
📄️ Restore VMs
Learn how to restore VM backups using Portworx Backup. This guide provides detailed steps for restoring VM backups, including namespace and storage class mapping options.
📄️ Restore deleted object lock enabled backups
This topic provides instructions for restoring or recovering object lock enabled backups that were deleted due to the deletion of their associated backup location. It explains how to recreate the backup location by specifying the object lock enabled bucket and other relevant cloud settings such as encryption key, region, and endpoint URL. Once the backup location is recreated, the recovered backups will appear in the Portworx Backup dashboard under the Activity Timeline.
📄️ Restore generic/KDMP backups
This guide covers how to restore generic KDMP (Kubernetes Data Management Platform) backups using Portworx Backup. It highlights common restore issues such as PVC size limitations, especially for file system-based storage provisioners, and provides solutions for resolving errors by adjusting the PVC size and modifying KDMP restore configurations.
📄️ Restore local snapshot
Local snapshot restore in Portworx Backup enables quick recovery of applications and persistent volumes within the same cluster. By leveraging on-cluster storage snapshots, users can efficiently restore workloads without data transfer overhead.