Backing up SaaS applications

With R‑Cloud, you can back up your SaaS application data securely and efficiently.

Limitations

  • A policy that has Snapshot specified as the backup target type can be assigned only to specific SaaS applications and/or resources. For information whether such a policy can be assigned to your SaaS application and/or its resources, see the R-Cloud Module Guides.

  • Only if one or more SaaS applications that you plan to back up reside on a different cloud platform than the target defined in the policy. The RPO of the assigned policy must not be shorter than 24 hours.

  • Only if your R-Cloud module supports storing data on a staging target. The staging target that you add to R‑Cloud when adding an R-Cloud module, and the target that is defined in the policy that is assigned to the related SaaS application must reside on the same cloud platform.

  • Depending on whether your R-Cloud module supports storing data on a staging target, the following limitations apply:

    • If the R-Cloud module supports storing data on a staging target, SaaS application data cannot be stored to automatically created targets.

    • If the R-Cloud module does not support storing data on a staging target, only backup data can be stored to automatically created targets (and not copies of backup data or archive data).

Consideration

Only if your R-Cloud module supports storing data on a staging target. If you use an automatically created staging target, the HMSA must be configured to perform all operations on the target specified in the policy that is assigned to the related SaaS application. Alternatively, the same cloud account must be configured to perform all operations on both targets (the staging target and the target specified in the policy that is assigned to the related SaaS application).

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 Policies 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.