Taking a backup of your IKS Clusters

To Backup your IKS Clusters, navigate to Disaster Recovery from the side menu and select Discover IKS Clusters tab.

You’ll be able to see discovered clusters. To view detailed information of the cluster, click on the cluster.

After clicking on workloads, you’ll be able to see namespaces and with namespaces associated pods, services and persistent volumes.

To create a backup of namespaces, click on the Create Backup button.

Next, give your backup a Name, select the Namespaces you want to backup and select region, Cloud Object Storage, Cloud Object Storage Key and Cloud Object Storage Bucket to store data.

In order to create a one time backup, select Take a single backup and then click on Create Backup.

In order to create backups in intervals, select Create a Scheduled backup.

You can schedule backup operations so that the backups are initiated automatically at regular intervals. It allows you to schedule backups on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, annually or one-time basis.

You can also select the backup count in the specified time.

After selecting Frequency of Backup and Backup Count and then click on Create Backup.

As soon as backup gets completed, a message will appear for successful backup.

You’ll be able to view your backups by clicking on to the Cluster Backups tab.

Clicking on a backup blueprint will expand and details of backup will be displayed.

Once the backup of your workloads is created, it will be displayed under the IKS Cluster Backups tab in the respective Cloud Account.

Next Steps:

In order to Restore your Backed up clusters, see Restoring your IKS Clusters.