Executing a Backup Operation

It is critical that the standard daily backups are activated on your appliance. Follow the procedure in Activating Standard Daily Backup. In addition, you can initiate a system backup manually if necessary. Execute this procedure to perform a manual system backup.

Using the Service CLI

1. Choose a strategy: create a full system backup, or back up individual components.

2. Run the backup command with the target parameter of your choice.

   Target options are: layer0, zfs, vault, mysql, loki, sauron, all.

   • To create a full system backup, select target=all.

     PCA-ADMIN> backup target=all
     Data:
       Type = BackupJob
       Job Id = ocid1.brs-job.2147XLD01D....<unique_ID>
       Display Name = brs-job-1698401412-backup
       Profile Id = ocid1.backup_profile.2147XLD01D....<unique_ID>
       Time Created = 2023-10-27T10:10:12Z
       Lifecycle State = CREATING
       Retention = 14

   • To create an individual component backup, select the appropriate target from the list: layer0 | zfs | vault | mysql | loki | sauron. For example:

     PCA-ADMIN> backup target=layer0
     Data:
       Type = BackupJob
       Job Id = ocid1.brs-job.2147XLD01D....<unique_ID>
       Display Name = brs-job-1698401607-backup
       Profile Id = ocid1.backup_profile.2147XLD01D....<unique_ID>
       Time Created = 2023-10-27T10:13:27Z
       Lifecycle State = CREATING
       Retention = 14

3. Use the backup job ID to check the status of the backups.

   PCA-ADMIN> getBackupJobs
   Data:
     id                                                                                              Display Name                Components
     --                                                                                              ------------                ----------
     ocid1.brs-job.PCA3X62D9C1.mypca.wtczj8r3zl7wjftxbkskaj6j60x6xqai3lpjoxp7ywi7nmrcuyo4vathc8rj   brs-job-1698401412-backup   layer0,zfs,vault,mysql,loki,sauron
     ocid1.brs-job.PCA3X62D9C1.mypca.089a7b8cuqz0cam2r7xexo4i4p7j7ia7sqhl9f8w89dyp9q3y10dnbaac6mu   brs-job-1698401607-backup   layer0
   
   PCA-ADMIN> getBackupJob backupJobId=ocid1.brs-job.PCA3X62D9C1.mypca.wtczj8r3zl7wjftxbkskaj6j60x6xqai3lpjoxp7ywi7nmrcuyo4vathc8rj
   Data:
     Type = BackupJob
     Job Id = ocid1.brs-job.PCA3X62D9C1.mypca.wtczj8r3zl7wjftxbkskaj6j60x6xqai3lpjoxp7ywi7nmrcuyo4vathc8rj
     Display Name = brs-job-1698401412-backup
     Time Created = 2023-10-27T10:10:12Z
     Status = success
     Components = layer0,zfs,vault,mysql,loki,sauron

4. Confirm that the backup operations have completed successfully.

Backups are created on the ZFS Storage Appliance at the following location, as seen from the management node mount point: /nfs/shared_storage/backups/. Each backup is identified by its unique path containing the job OCID and time stamp:

/nfs/shared_storage/backups/ocid1.brs-job.unique_ID/backup_timestamp/