The recovery of the assets is a manual process. The restoration of the Kubernetes namespaces, which includes pods, stateful sets, PVCs, and other resources, is done at the same cluster. PowerProtect Data Manager provides options to recover the Kubernetes namespaces at the same cluster as well as the alternate cluster.
- Log in to the PowerProtect Data Manager UI with administrator credentials.
- On the left pane of the PowerProtect Data Manager UI, click Recovery.
- Click Assets.
- Click Kubernetes on top and select the namespaces to be restored.
- Click Restore.
- Select Copy:
- Select the restore copy. The most recent copy is used by default. To change from the default copy, click Change Copy.
- Click Ok.
- Click Next.
- Cluster: This provides the option to select the cluster on which assets are to be restored.
- Restore to Original Cluster: The assets are restored to the source cluster from which the backup is taken.
- Restore to Alternate Cluster: The assets are restored on the alternate cluster. To use this option, the alternate cluster is added as an asset source to the managing PowerProtect Data Manager.
- Purpose: Select the option for what is to be restored.
- Restore Namespace and Select PVCs: This option restores the namespace and a subset of PVCs in the namespace. The namespace resources, including pods, services, secrets, and deployments, will not be overwritten during a restore. All other resources that do not currently exists in the namespace will be restored.
- Restore PVCs only: This option will restore only PVCs.
- Restore Type: Restore type has different options depending on the purpose of the restore.
a. If the purpose is to restore namespaces and PVCs, the options are:
- Restore to Original Namespace
- Restore to New Namespace
- Restore to an Existing Namespace
- If the purpose is to restore PVCs only, the options are:
- Restore to Original Namespace
- Restore to an Existing Namespace
- PVCs: Select PVCs to be restored to the namespace. The options are:
- Overwrite content of existing PVCs.
- Skip restores of existing PVCs.
- Summary: Verify the information and click Restore.
Note: When the restore job starts, a new namespace is crated at the Kubernetes cluster. Once the restore job is complete, the pod and PVC get created with details of pod and PersistentVolume bound to PVC.