Backup and restore of IBM Cloud Pak for Data to the same or different cluster

IBM Cloud Pak for Data is now integrated with IBM Storage Fusion and IBM Storage Fusion HCI System, which enables you to create online backups and to restore them to the same cluster or to a different cluster.

To create IBM Cloud Pak for Data backups with IBM Storage Fusion or IBM Storage Fusion HCI System, see Creating and scheduling online backups of Cloud Pak for Data with IBM Storage Fusion.

To restore IBM Cloud Pak for Data online backup and restore to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion or IBM Storage Fusion HCI System, see Cloud Pak for Data online backup and restore to the same cluster with IBM Storage Fusion.

To restore IBM Cloud Pak for Data backups to a different cluster with IBM Storage Fusion or IBM Storage Fusion HCI System, see Cloud Pak for Data online backup and restore to a different cluster with IBM Storage Fusion.

Remember: IBM Cloud Paks instance backups cannot be created when continuous backup is enabled on the MongoDB service.

Note: You can restore backup data to a different StorageClass provisioner on an alternate cluster, for example, restore data that was originally backed-up from a CephFS provisioned StorageClass to a Scale provisioned StorageClass.

Though you cannot specify an alternate StorageClass when you restore PVC data to an alternate cluster, you can use the same StorageClass name even if the StorageClass provisioner is different.

For example, you have a namespace with PVCs by using StorageClass name: my-storage-class provisioner: openshift-storage.cephfs.csi.ceph.com and backs up the PVC from cluster-a. You can restore the data to cluster-b by using the same StorageClass name that uses a different provisioner, for example, StorageClass name: my-storage-class provisioner: spectrumscale.csi.ibm.com.