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Use backups to protect data in NetApp Workload Factory

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Protect your volume data from accidental deletion, corruption, and other data loss events by creating and restoring backups in NetApp Workload Factory. You can set up a backup schedule, create an on-demand backup of a volume outside your regularly scheduled backups, and you can restore a volume from an existing backup to any FSx for ONTAP file system in your AWS account.

Create an on-demand backup of a volume

Create a manual backup of a volume outside regularly scheduled backups in NetApp Workload Factory.

About this task

Volume backups are per volume, so each backup contains only the data in a particular volume.

Volume backups are incremental which means that only the data on the volume that has changed after your most recent backup is saved. This minimizes the time required to create the backup and the storage required for the backup, which saves on storage costs by not duplicating data.

Before you begin

To take backups of your volumes, both your volume and your file system must have enough available SSD storage capacity to store the backup snapshot. When taking a backup snapshot, the additional storage capacity consumed by the snapshot cannot cause the volume to exceed 98% SSD storage utilization. If this happens, the backup will fail.

Steps

  1. Log in using one of the console experiences.

  2. Select the menu The hamburger menu icon is used to navigate to workloads like storage and then select Storage.

  3. From the Storage menu, select Volumes explorer.

  4. Select the actions menu for the volume to back up.

  5. Select Data protection actions, Volume backups, and then Manual backup.

  6. In the Manual backup dialog, enter a name for the backup.

  7. Select Back up.

Restore a volume from a backup in NetApp Workload Factory

In NetApp Workload Factory, you can restore a volume from a backup to any FSx for ONTAP file system in your AWS account.

Workload Factory determines if you have enough capacity for the restore and can automatically add SSD storage tier capacity if you don't.

Steps

  1. Log in using one of the console experiences.

  2. Select the menu The hamburger menu icon is used to navigate to workloads like storage and then select Storage.

  3. From the Storage menu, select Volumes explorer.

  4. Select the actions menu for the volume to restore from a backup.

  5. Select Data protection actions, Volume backups, and then Restore from a backup.

  6. In the Restore from a backup dialog, provide the following:

    1. Target file system: Select the target file system from the dropdown menu.

    2. Target storage VM: Select the target storage VM from the dropdown menu.

    3. Backup name: Select the backup name from the dropdown menu.

    4. Restored volume name: Enter the restored volume name.

  7. Verify file system capacity for the restore operation.

    When file system capacity is limited, the following might occur:

    • The restore can push used capacity over the threshold you specified. You can complete the restore operation. Consider manually adding SSD storage tier capacity or selecting for Workload Factory to automatically add SSD storage tier capacity.

    • The restore requires additional SSD capacity. You must select for Workload Factory to automatically add SSD storage tier capacity to proceed.

  8. Select Restore.