Creating backup plans
You can schedule an automatic backup job for multiple volumes by creating a backup plan. A backup plan defines the following:
- Backup selection: Select one or multiple volumes per backup plan. However, note that one volume cannot be added to multiple backup plans.
- Backup frequency: Choose when and how often backups will be created.
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Backup retention: Set the maximum number of full backups to retain at all times.
If incremental backups are enabled in your compute cluster, the total number of backups can be calculated as:
max. number of full backups * chain length
A backup chain consists of the initial full backup followed by a series of incremental backups. By default, the chain length is set to 7 (one full backup and six incremental backups), but can be modified by the system administrator.
To create a backup plan
- On the Backup plans screen, click Create backup plan.
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In the Create backup plan window, specify a name for the backup plan and, optionally, a description.
A description should not contain any personally identifiable information or sensitive business data.
- In What to back up, click Manage. In the Manage volumes window, select compute volumes that will be included in the backup plan, and then click Save.
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In Schedule, select the schedule for the backup plan:
- Select Retention 7 days to create a backup of the selected volumes every day at 2 AM (UTC time zone) and keep 7 full recovery points at most.
- Select Retention 14 days to create a backup of the selected volumes every day at 2 AM (UTC time zone) and keep 14 full recovery points at most.
- Select Custom to configure a custom schedule for the automatic backup. You can choose months, days of the week, days of the month, time, and the maximum number of full recovery points to keep.
- Click Create.