backing-up-applications.adoc

Backing up applications

You can employ OpenShift API for Data Protection (OADP) with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) clusters to backup and restore application data. Before installing OADP, you must set up role and policy credentials for OADP so that it can use the AWS API.

This is a two stage process:

1. Prepare AWS credentials.

2. Install the OADP Operator and provide it with the IAM role.

modules/oadp-preparing-aws-credentials.adoc

modules/oadp-installing-oadp-rosa-sts.adoc

Additional resources

• Preparing AWS credentials

Known issues

Restic, Kopia, and DataMover are not supported or recommended

• CloudStorage: openshift-adp-controller-manager crashloop seg fault with Restic enabled

• (Affects OADP 1.1.x_ only): CloudStorage: bucket is removed on CS CR delete, although it doesn’t have "oadp.openshift.io/cloudstorage-delete": "true"

Additional resources

• Understanding ROSA with STS

• Getting started with ROSA STS

• Creating a ROSA cluster with STS

• About installing OADP

• Configuring CSI volumes

• ROSA storage options