Backing up data

R-Cloud enables you to back up your Google Artifact Registry data securely and efficiently.

Configuring the SaaS application for backup operations

This topic includes all prerequisites, limitations, considerations, and/or recommendations that help you enable your SaaS application data backups on the module side.

The following configurable data types are protected:

  • Repository name

  • Repository format

  • Repository mode

  • Repository region

  • Multi-region repository

  • Repository description

  • Repository labels

  • Repository cleanup policies

  • Repository encryption

  • Virtual repositories configuration

  • Remote repository configuration

  • Docker images

R-Cloud allows you to back up the following resource types:

  • Artifact Registry repositories (root)

  • Artifact Registry Docker images (resource)

Setting up automatic policy assignment

To set up automatic policy assignment, add the hycu-policy label to your Artifact Registry repositories in the Google Cloud console.

  1. In the Google Cloud console, select the Artifact Registry repository for which you want to set up automatic policy assignment.

  2. In the info panel, click Labels, and then click Add label.

  3. Enter the key and the value, and then click Save.

Backing up SaaS application data

Limitation

Only backup data can be stored to the automatically created targets (and not copies of backup data or archive data).

To access the SaaS panel, in the navigation pane, click SaaS SaaS.

Procedure

  1. Select the SaaS applications and/or resources that you want to back up.

    Note  If you want to narrow down the list of displayed SaaS applications, use the filtering options as described in Filtering and sorting data.

  2. Click Set Policy Set Policy. The Set Policy dialog box opens.

  3. From the list of available policies, select the preferred policy.

  4. Click Assign to assign the policy to the selected SaaS applications and/or resources.

After you assign a policy to a SaaS application, a backup task starts immediately. Subsequent backups are scheduled according to the values defined in the policy.

If required, you can also perform a manual backup of individual SaaS applications and/or resources at any time. For details, see Performing manual backups.