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name: containers-storage-br
title: Backing up and restoring storage data
description: Depending on the storage solution that you use for your IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service cluster, you have different options to back up and restore your data.
last-updated: 2024-09-19
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# Backing up and restoring storage data
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Depending on the storage solution that you use for your IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service cluster, you have different options to back up and restore your data. 
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If you have not provisioned storage, review the [Kubernetes storage basics](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-storage-plan&format=markdown) to understand your storage options for single-campus multizone and multizone clusters.

* [File Storage for Classic](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-file_storage&format=markdown)
* [Block Storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-block_storage&format=markdown#block_backup_restore)
* [Block Storage for VPC](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-vpc-block&format=markdown#vpc-block-backup-restore)
* [Object Storage](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-storage-cos-understand&format=markdown)
* [Portworx disaster recovery](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/containers?topic=containers-storage_portworx_recovery&format=markdown)