Downloading the Cloud Pak for Data backup and restore scripts

Important: IBM Cloud Pak® for Data Version 4.8 will reach end of support (EOS) on 31 July, 2025. For more information, see the Discontinuance of service announcement for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.X.

Upgrade to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1 before IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8 reaches end of support. For more information, see Upgrading from IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8 to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1.

Some backup and restore scripts are needed for online and offline backup and restore, such as cpd-operators.sh.

About this task

4.8.5 For Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.5, you must download version 4.8.5 of the scripts.

4.8.5 If your Cloud Pak for Data deployment includes watsonx Orchestrate®, you must download backup-script.zip and restore-script.zip so that you can back up and restore IBM App Connect. For details on downloading and extracting the contents of the files, see Backing up and restoring your IBM App Connect resources and persistent volumes on Red Hat® OpenShift®.

For Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.4 and earlier, you can use version 4.8.3 of the scripts. However, the same version of the scripts that is used to create a backup must be used to restore that backup. For example, you can use version 4.8.0 of the scripts to back up and restore Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.4. However, you cannot use version 4.8.0 of the scripts to create the backup and then use version 4.7.4 of the scripts to restore the backup.

Procedure

  1. Go to the following location:
    https://github.com/IBM/cpd-cli/tree/master/cpdops
  2. To download the files individually, click the files folder.
  3. To download the package that contains all the files, do the following steps:
    1. Click the folder of the Cloud Pak for Data version from which you want to download the files.
    2. Click the subfolder that corresponds to the hardware on which Cloud Pak for Data is installed.
  4. Download individual files or the cpdops.tgz file, which is the package that contains all the files.
    • If the operating system of your workstation is Linux®, run the appropriate wget command as described in the Download section in the readme.
    • If the operating system of your workstation is Windows or Mac OS, click the file, and then click the Download raw file icon.
  5. If you downloaded the cpdops.tgz file, extract the contents of the package.
    For example, on Mac OS, double-click the file. On Linux, run the following command:
    tar -xvf cpdops.tgz