# Configure Pinecone backups

Create an AI application instance for your Pinecone account. When the instance is created, Commvault automatically creates a default subclient that specifies the Pinecone content to protect. You can configure user-defined subclients to back up and protect specific data at a particular time or frequency.

## Prerequisites

If you are an MSP and you want tenant administrators to configure backups for Pinecone, see Managed Service Provider Configuration.

## Start the configuration

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > AI & Analytics.

2. Click Add AI application.

3. Select Pinecone, and then click Next.

## Specify credentials

Using a new Pinecone project

1. Select New Pinecone project.

2. In Name, enter a name for the Pinecone project.

3. In API key name, enter a label to identify the API key.

4. In API key value, enter your Pinecone API key.

   Important

   The API key provided must have the following roles enabled:

   - DataPlaneEditor

   - ControlPlaneEditor

5. In Description, enter a short description for the credential.

6. Click Next.

Using an Existing Pinecone project

1. Select Existing Pinecone project.

2. Select an existing Pinecone client.

3. Enter a name for the Pinecone instance.

## Specify backup content

Add content you want to back up by browsing specific indexes or add rules to auto-discover indexes, namespaces, etc.

1. In the right corner, click the Edit button .

2. To select specific indexes, do the following:

   1. Click Browse.

   2. Select the index that you want to backup.

   3. Click Save.

3. To create rules that auto-discover content to back up, do the following:

   1. Click Add rule.

   2. Choose how to apply the rules:

      - Select All to require all conditions to match.

      - Select Any to allow any condition to match.

   3. From the Type list, select the attribute to filter.

   4. From the Condition list, select a comparison operator (For example, is equal to).

   5. In the Value field, enter the value to match.

   6. Click Save.

4. Click Save.

5. Click Next.

## Configure staging path

1. In Storage integration ID, enter the storage integration identifier.

2. In Cloud storage staging path, enter the full path to the staging location in your cloud storage.

3. In Cloud storage credential, select an existing credential from the list or create a new credential.

## Specify a backup plan

1. Select an existing backup plan or create a new backup plan.

2. Click Next.

## Review summary

1. Review the summary.

2. Click Submit.

## Validation

### Run a backup

You can perform a full backup of Pinecone databases on-demand. You can back up a specific subclient or all subclients.

To backup a Pinecone instance, follow these steps:

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > AI & Analytics.

2. Click the Pinecone instance that you want to backup.

3. At the top-right of the page, click Backup.

4. Edit the retention as required.

5. Click Submit.

### Test a restore

To confirm you can restore data, perform a simple index restore.

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > AI & Analytics.

2. Click the Pinecone instance.

3. Select the recovery point, and then click Restore.

4. Select a small index to restore, and then click Restore.

5. Review the restore options, and then click Restore.

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