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Apart from the scheduled backup option, PowerProtect Data Manager supports the option to perform manual backups.
For example, a sample PostgreSQL application is deployed on the GDC Virtual Kubernetes cluster with the namespace postgresqldb. The namespace is composed of a PostgreSQL pod, as shown in the following figure:
A sample database been created on the PostgreSQL application pod belonging to namespace postgresqldb as shown in the following figure:
After creating the namespace, backup the namespace postgresqldb and the respective PVCs with PowerProtect Data Manager.
The following figure shows the protection job that is completed successfully for the namespace postgresqldb:
The following figure shows the protection copy available for the namespace postgresqldb: