The big data guided setup guides you through the procedure of creating a backup plan and configuring the CockroachDB cluster.
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Guided setup.
The Welcome page appears.
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On the Protect tab, at the bottom right of the page, click More.
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In the Big data apps tile, when you click the ellipsis (...) icon, the following options are displayed:
Create a Backup Plan for CockroachDB
If you already have a backup plan that you can use, you can skip this step.
Before You Begin
To create a backup plan, you must have the Plan Creator Role assigned to your user account.
1. On the Create backup plan page, specify the settings for a backup plan that you can use for CockroachDB.
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Settings
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Steps
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Plan name
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Enter the following information:
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Choose whether to create a new backup plan or use a base plan.
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If you select Create a new plan, in the Plan name, enter a name for the backup plan.
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If you select Use existing base plan, specify the backup plan name and select a base plan.
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Backup destinations
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Click Add copy.
The Add copy dialog box appears.
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In Name box, enter a name for the backup destination.
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From the Storage list, select the storage which you want to use for the backups.
You can use the Air Gap Protect cool storage class only for creating secondary copies.
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To specify the start time for backups on a specific date and later, move the Backups On and After toggle key to right.
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For Retention rules, enter the amount of time you want to retain the backups.
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To specify additional backups, such as weekly full backups, move the Extended retention rules toggle key to right, and then add rules.
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Click Save.
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To add additional regions to the backup destination, move the Multi-region toggle key to right, and then select the regions.
You can also add more regions and associate the storage copy to the region.
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RPO
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For Backup frequency, click Add.
The Add backup frequency dialog box appears.
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From the Backup type list, select the backup type, and from the for list, select All agents or Databases.
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Specify the frequency of the backup.
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To specify the client time zone, full backup database frequency, or to add exceptions, move the Advanced toggle key to right, and do the following:
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From the time zone list, select the time zone according to which the backups must run.
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If you select incremental or differential backup type for all agents or databases, to modify the full backup frequency of the database, specify a value for Run full backup on databases every option.
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To add exceptions when the backups must not run, click Exceptions, and then add exceptions for any day of a month or week, or schedule an exception for any week of the month.
Exceptions repeat every week or month according to the selected frequency and date.
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For Backup window (if incremental and differential backups are supported for the workload), specify when you want incremental and differential backups to run.
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For Full backup window, specify when you want full backups to run.
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Folders to back up
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These settings do not apply to CockroachDB.
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Database options
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These settings do not apply to CockroachDB.
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Override restrictions
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- Leave the Allow plan to be overridden check box cleared.
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2. Click Save.