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What is Backup and Recovery?

What is Backup and Recovery?

IBM Cloud Backup and Recovery is a fully managed service that provides backup solutions for various IBM Cloud services and customer workloads running on IBM Cloud. This service lets you define backup schedules to routinely protect data sources using a secure, agent-based, application-consistent backup service. Backup infrastructure is managed by IBM.

Developers use APIs to interact with the service to set up backup and recovery activities. Additionally, there is a software development kit (SDK) are available for the Go framework. A plug-in is also available for the IBM Cloud Command Line Interface.

The IBM Cloud console provides a user interface for most operations and configuration as well.

Supported Features and Capabilities

Scheduled backups

Customize backup plans to run at daily, weekly or custom intervals.

Policy-based backup

Use policies to define how and when the objects and files in a source are protected based on your use case. Define parameters such as the data to be protected, backup frequency, and how long to retain the backup copy.

Security

Take advantage of granular role-based access control to stop unauthorized actors from modifying or deleting data.

Data consistency

Achieve higher data resiliency through the consistency and integrity of your protected data.

Next Steps

Documentation on the best way to get started with the service.