Associating Servers with a Vault

After purchasing a vault, associate servers with it.

The selected servers cannot be currently associated with any other vault, and they must be 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 specific 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 ensure data is consistent after a restoration, you are advised to back up entire servers.

     If you want to back up only certain disks, to reduce costs, ensure that data on these disks does not depend on other disks. Or, there may be data inconsistencies.

     For example, supposed the 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. The resulting data inconsistency may prevent the application from being able to run.

   • 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 see which servers have been associated with the vault.