Applying backup policies to resources
Apply backup policies by adding user tags to new or existing volumes, virtual server instances, or shares. When these tags match a backup policy tag, a backup is created.
Up to 100 tags can be attached or detached in the same operation. Maintaining a limited quantity of tags can simplify monitoring their usage and your backups.
- Create a backup policy and plan, and specify the tags for the target resources.
- Find the resources that you want to back up.
- Apply backup policy tags to your target volumes, or virtual server instances, or file shares in the console.
- Apply backup policy tags to your target volumes, or virtual server instances, or file shares from the CLI.
- Apply backup policy tags to your target volumes, or virtual server instances, or file shares with the API.
- Apply backup policy tags to your target volumes, or virtual server instances, or file shares with Terraform.
- Verify that your selected resource is associated with a backup policy. For more information, see View a list of resources that have a backup policy.
Backup schedules for file shares can be set up only on the source side of a replication pair. Scheduling snapshots of a replica share is not supported. When you fail over operations to the replica share, the source and replica shares switch roles. After a failover, remove backup policies from what was previously the source share and apply them to the current source share. Update the tags on the affected shares.