Associating Servers with a Vault

After purchasing a vault, associate servers with it.

The selected servers must have not been associated with any vault and are in the Running or Stopped state.

1. On the Cloud Server Backups page, locate the vault and click Associate Server in the Operation column.
2. Select the BMSs you want to associate with the vault. You can choose to back up entire servers or select some disks for backup.
   

   • If a new disk is attached to an associated server, the system automatically identifies the new disk and includes it in subsequent backup tasks.
   • To avoid data inconsistency after restoration, you are advised to back up entire servers.

     If you want to back up only some of the disks to reduce costs, ensure that data on these disks does not depend on other disks. Or, data inconsistency may occur.

     For example, data of an Oracle application is scattered across different disks. If only some of the disks are backed up, restoration restores only the data of the disks that have been backed up, with the rest data unchanged. As a result, data inconsistency occurs and even the application cannot be started.

   • You are not advised to associate a shared disk with multiple servers for cloud server backup. If multiple servers need to be backed up, associate the vault with only certain disks and do not associate it with shared disks. For details, see Associating Resources with a Vault.
3. Click OK. Then on the Associated Servers tab, you can view the servers that have been associated with.