Backing up and restoring OpenShift clusters
To protect persistent volumes and other OpenShift® resources that are attached to a cluster, create service level agreement (SLA) polices and create jobs for backup and restore operations in the IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus user interface.
Ensure that your OpenShift environment meets the system requirements in Container Backup Support requirements.
To protect cluster-scoped and namespace-scoped resources in your OpenShift container workloads, ensure that the Velero tool is installed. For instructions, see For Kubernetes: Installing Velero to protect resources.
The following table shows the icon and naming convention for each type of resource that is displayed in the OpenShift Backup pane, as well as a description of each type of resource:
Naming convention | Resource type | Description |
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Cluster | A Red Hat OpenShift cluster. |
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Cluster resources | Cluster-scoped resources such as PersistentVolumes, ClusterRoles, StorageClasses, CSIDrivers, VolumeSnapshotClasses, and CustomResourceDefinitions. |
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Project | A project in the cluster. |
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Project resources | Project-scoped resources such as PersistentVolumeClaims, pods, containers, ConfigMaps, secrets, services, and deployments. |
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Persistent volume claim (PVC) | PVCs in a project. |