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After taking backup for the namespaces on the Red Hat OpenShift cluster, you can validate the restore of the namespaces and PVCs from the individual namespace backups.
The following recovery options can be used:
To validate the restore process, the PVCs that are backed up within the namespace mysql are restored to the new namespace mysqlrestore on the same cluster.
The following figures show the restore type window and the PVCs to be restored:
Figure 36. Restore type window
Figure 37. PVCs to be restored
The following figure shows that the restore job is completed successfully:
Figure 38. PowerProtect Data Manager protection restore job window
The following code sample shows the new namespace mysqlrestore created successfully during the restore:
The following code sample shows the restored MySQL application pod in the new namespace mysqlrestore on same cluster:
The preceding code samples confirm the successful backup and recovery of namespaces and PVCs that are available in the OpenShift cluster using PowerProtect Data Manager.
For more information about performing the backup and recovery of Kubernetes workloads using PowerProtect Data Manager, see Dell PowerProtect Data Manager Administration and User Guide.