Updated on 2023-07-18 GMT+08:00

Purchasing a Disk Backup Vault

This section describes how to purchase a disk backup vault.

Procedure

  1. Log in to CBR Console.

    1. Log in to the management console.
    2. Click in the upper left corner and select your region and project.
    3. Click and choose Storage > Cloud Backup and Recovery. Select a backup type from the left navigation pane.

  2. In the upper right corner of the page, click Buy Disk Backup Vault.
  3. (Optional) In the disk list, select the disks you want to back up. After disks are selected, they are added to the list of selected disks. See Figure 1.

    Figure 1 Selecting disks

    • The selected disks must have not been associated with any vault and must be in the Available or In-use state.
    • You can also associate disks with the vault you are creating later if you skip this step.

  4. Specify a vault capacity ranging from 10 GB to 10,485,760 GB. Properly plan the vault capacity, which must be at least the same as the size of the disks you want to back up.

  5. Configure auto backup.

    • If you select Configure, you must then select an existing backup policy or create a new policy. After the vault is created, CBR will apply the policy to this vault, and all disks associated with this vault will be automatically backed up based on this policy.
    • If you select Skip, disks associated with this vault will not be automatically backed up until you apply a backup policy to the vault.

  6. If you have subscribed to the EPS service, add the vault to an existing enterprise project.

    EPS provides a unified method to manage cloud resources by project, allowing you to manage resources, users, and user groups in your projects. The default enterprise project is default.

    If the CBR FullAccess permissions have been assigned to IAM users, enterprise projects will not be displayed for you to choose from when you create a vault. Go to the Enterprise Project Management console to add the permissions.

  7. (Optional) Add tags to the vault.

    Tags are key-value pairs, which are used to identify, classify, and search for vaults. You can add a maximum of 10 tags for a vault, and vault tags are only used for vault search and management.

    Table 1 describes the parameters of a tag.
    Table 1 Tag parameter description

    Parameter

    Description

    Example Value

    Key

    Each tag has a unique key. You can customize a key or select the key of an existing tag created in TMS.

    A tag key:

    • Can contain 1 to 36 Unicode characters.
    • Can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

    Key_0001

    Value

    A tag value can be repetitive or left blank.

    A tag value:

    • Can contain 0 to 43 Unicode characters.
    • Can contain only letters, digits, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).

    Value_0001

  8. Specify a name for the vault.

    The name must contain 1 to 64 characters including digits, letters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-), for example, vault-612c.

    You can also use the default name vault_xxxx.

  9. Complete the payment as prompted.
  10. Go back to the Cloud Disk Backups page. You can see the created vault in the vault list.

    You can associate disks to the new vault or perform backup for the disks. For details, see Vault Management.