Creating a Server Backup Vault

Procedure

1. Log in to CBR Console.
   1. Log in to the management console.
   2. Click in the upper left corner and select your region and project.
   3. Choose Storage > Cloud Backup and Recovery. Select a backup tab from the left navigation pane.

2. In the upper right corner of the page, click Create Server Backup Vault.
3. Select a protection type.
   • Backup: The created vault is a server backup vault, which stores cloud server backups.

4. (Optional) In the server list, select the servers or disks you want to back up. After the servers or disks are selected, they are added to the list of selected servers. See Figure 1. You may also select only some of the disks of a server and associate them with the vault.
   

   To ensure post-restoration data consistency, you are advised to back up the entire server.

   If you want to back up only some of the disks to reduce costs, ensure that the data on the backed up disks does not depend on the disks that are not backed up. Or, data inconsistency may occur.

   For example, the data of an Oracle database is scattered across different disks. If only some of the disks are backed up, restoration restores only the data of the disks that have been backed up, with the rest of the data unchanged. As a result, the data may be inconsistent and applications may fail to start.

   Figure 1 Selecting servers

   

   

   • The selected servers must have not been associated with another vault and must be in the Running or Stopped state.
   • You can associate servers with the vault you are creating if you skip this step.

5. Specify the vault capacity, which ranges from 10 GB to 10,485,760 GB. You need to properly plan the vault capacity, which must be at least the same as the size of the servers you want to back up. Also, if a backup policy is applied to the vault, more capacity is required.
   As the vault's used space grows, you can expand the vault capacity if it becomes insufficient. See Figure 2.

   Figure 2 Setting the vault capacity
   

6. Determine whether to configure auto backup. See Figure 3.
   • If you select Configure, you must then select an existing backup policy or create a new policy. After the vault is created, the system will apply the policy to this vault, and all servers associated with this vault will be automatically backed up based on this policy.
   • If you select Skip, servers associated with this vault will not be automatically backed up until you apply a backup policy to it.
   Figure 3 Configuring automatic backup
   

7. (Optional) Configure automatic resource association.
   • If you select Configure, in the next backup period, unprotected resources will be automatically scanned and associated with the vault, and backups will be automatically executed.
   • If you select Skip, resources will not be automatically associated with the vault you are creating.

   You can filter unprotected resources by tag. If a tag is selected, only unprotected resources having the specified tag will be associated with the vault. Or, all unprotected resources will be associated.

   Only existing tags can be selected. If no tag is available, create tags on the corresponding resource page. You can select a maximum of 5 tags to search for vaults. If you select more than one tag, the vaults containing any of the specified tags will be returned.

8. (Optional) Add tags to the vault.

   A tag is represented in the form of a key-value pair. Tags are used to identify, classify, and search for vaults. Vault tags are used to filter and manage vaults only. A vault can have a maximum of 10 tags. See Figure 4.

   Figure 4 Adding a tag

   

   Table 1 describes the parameters of a tag.

   Table 1 Tag parameter description

   Parameter	Description	Example Value
   Key	Each tag has a unique key. You can customize the key or select the key of an existing tag created in TMS. A tag key: Can contain 1 to 36 Unicode characters. Can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).	Key_0001
   Value	A tag value can be repetitive or left blank. A tag value: Can contain 0 to 43 Unicode characters. Can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).	Value_0001

9. Specify a name for the vault.

   A name must contain 1 to 64 characters including digits, letters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-), for example, vault-f61e.

   

   You can use the default name, which is in the format of vault_xxxx.

10. Complete the creation as prompted.
11. Go back to the Cloud Server Backups page. You can see the created vault in the vault list.

    You can associate servers with the vault and perform backup for the servers. For details, see Querying a Vault.