Typical Backup Scenarios

Backup Service can be applied to the following three typical scenarios: local backup, remote backup, and Public Cloud backup.

Note: If you have the Tenant Management Plus license at the same time, the project members (project managers, project admins, and general project members) can perform local backup for VM instances and volumes in the project.

• Local Backup

  A local ImageStore image storage can act as the Local Backup Server to store scheduled backup data of the local VM instances, volumes, and management node databases. Meanwhile, the seamless switchover between the primary local backup server and the secondary local backup server is supported, which effectively ensures your business continuity.

  If your local data is mistakenly deleted, or data in the local primary storage is damaged, you can recover the backup data from the local backup server, as shown in Local Backup Scenario-1

  
  
  

  If you encounter a disaster in your local data center, you can rely totally on your local backup server to rebuild your data center and recover your business, as shown in Local Backup Scenario-2.

  
  
  

• Remote Backup

  A storage server in a remote data center can act as the Remote Backup Server to store the scheduled backup data of the local VM instances, volumes, and databases. The backup data needs to be synchronized to the remote backup server from the local backup server.

  If your local data is mistakenly deleted, or data in the local primary storage is damaged, you can recover the backup data from the remote backup server, as shown in Remote Backup Scenario-1

  
  
  

  If you encounter a disaster in your data center, you can rely totally on your remote backup server to rebuild your data center and recover your business, as shown in Remote Backup Scenario-2.

  
  
  

• Public Cloud Backup

  The storage server in the Public Cloud can act as the Public Cloud Backup Server to store the scheduled backup data of the local VM instances, volumes, and databases. The backup data can be synchronized to the Public Cloud backup server from the local backup server.

  If your local data is mistakenly deleted, or data in the local primary storage is damaged, you can recover the backup data from the Public Cloud backup server, as shown in Public Cloud Backup Scenario-1.

  
  
  

  If you encounter a disaster in your data center, you can rely totally on your Public Cloud backup server to rebuild your data center and recover your business, as shown in Public Cloud Backup Scenario-2.

  
  
  

Job Overview

Job overview displays backup job number and state on a card.

• Total jobs: The total number of backup jobs on the Cloud, as well as the number of VM instance, volume, and database backup jobs.
• State: The state of backup jobs. Green indicates enabled, while red indicates disabled.

Resource Overview

Resource overview displays the backup and protection information about available VM instances/volumes on the Cloud.

• VM Instance:
  • Backup Job: The number of VM instances that have backup jobs on the Cloud.
  • CDP Task: The number of VM instances that have CDP tasks on the Cloud.
  • No Task: The number of VM instances that have no backup jobs or CDP tasks on the Cloud.

• Volume:

  • Backup Job: The number of volumes that have backup jobs on the Cloud.
  • Other: The number of volumes attached by VM instances with CDP tasks or backup jobs on the Cloud.
  • No Task: The number of volumes that have no backup jobs or CDP tasks on the Cloud.

Backup Job Statistics

Backup job statistics displays the execution of backup jobs in a line chart with time period as the horizontal axis and job number as the vertical axis.

You can set a time filter to the view the execution of backup jobs within the selected time period (by year/month/day).

• Blue: The number of executed backup jobs within the selected time period.
• Green: The number of succeeded backup jobs within the selected time period.
• Yellow: The number of partially succeeded backup jobs within the selected time period. You can view the specific backup job result in the job details.
• Red: The number of failed backup jobs within the selected time period.
• Grey: The number of backup jobs that are scheduled to implement within the selected time period.

Note:

• The time filter applies to both the line chart (backup job statistics) and list (backup record).
• Allows you to view the execution of a backup job on the current date in hover.

Backup Record

Backup record displays the execution record of all backup jobs within the current time period, including execution time, name, backup resource, resources, backup mode, backup capacity, task result and time consumed. You can view the job details of a backup job.

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