Add an Azure Backup Location in Portworx Backup

Applicable to Classic mode only

Microsoft Azure offers multiple discrete cloud platforms; Azure Global and Azure China are two among them. Azure Global is the standard Microsoft Azure platform available worldwide across data centers in multiple regions. Azure China is a specialized and localized version of the Azure platform available only in China tailored to meet the country's regulatory requirements.

Starting from Portworx Backup 2.7.1, you can add Azure China based backup location through the web console with minimal prerequisites.

Add an Azure Global backup location

Prerequisite: An Azure cloud credential must be created in Portworx Backup before adding an Azure backup location.

To add an Azure global backup location, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Portworx Backup UI.

2. From the left navigation pane, click the Cloud Settings icon and select the Backup Locations tab.

3. Click Add Backup Location.

4. On the Add Backup Location page, select the Object Store option and specify the following information:

   • Name: Enter the name for the backup location.
   • Cloud Account: Select the Azure credentials.
   • Path/Bucket: Specify the path or bucket name.
   • Encryption key (Optional): Enter the optional encryption key to encrypt your backups in-transit. For more information on encryption support, see Encryption matrix.
   • Azure Environment: Select Azure Global.
   • Resource Group Name: Enter the name of the Azure resource group. This field is mandatory to add an immutable Azure backup location.

5. Click Add.

   The Azure global backup location is added in Portworx Backup.

Add an Azure China backup location

You can add an Azure China backup location in Portworx Backup.

Prerequisites

Ensure that the following prerequisites are met before you add an Azure China backup location:

• Stork version 24.2.1 and above

• (Optional) If you have deployed Portworx on any of your Azure application clusters, update the AZURE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable of Portworx STC with the value specified below. You need to update this environment variable only if the application cluster is based in China. You can update this environment variable either while bringing up your application cluster or after the application cluster is up.

  AZURE_ENVIRONMENT: AzureChinaCloud

  The default value of this variable is AzurePublicCloud.

  note

  • Portworx service restarts after you update the environment variable.
  • Portworx Backup does not support cross-region backups of Portworx volumes. Hence, you need to ensure that the cluster region and the backup location region remains the same before creating a backup of Portworx volumes.

Procedure

To add an Azure China backup location, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Portworx Backup UI.

2. From the left navigation pane, click the Cloud Settings icon and select the Backup Locations tab.

3. Click Add Backup Location.

4. On the Add Backup Location page, select the Object Store option and specify the following information:

   • Name: Enter the name for the backup location. Portworx Backup displays this name as the backup location name in the web console.
   • Cloud Account: Select the Azure credentials this backup location will use to create backups.
   • Path/Bucket: Enter the path of the bucket or the name of the bucket that this backup location will place backups into.
   • Encryption key (Optional): Enter the optional encryption key to encrypt your backups in-transit. For more information on encryption support, see Encryption matrix.
   • Azure Environment: This drop-down lists two regions. Select Azure China to add your backup location based in China.
   • Resource Group Name: Enter the name of the Azure resource group. This field is mandatory to add an immutable Azure backup location.

5. Click Add.

   The Azure China backup location is added in Portworx Backup.