Knime Business Hub Backup Best Practice

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Hello Knime Team,

Looking for advice on best practices in regards to backing up our hub?

How often and what type do you recommend?In addition to the Velero backups, should we also perform VM image backups (VM is only used for Knime Business Hub). If so are VM image backups supported by the KBH server? i.e Will the application function ok on a full VM restore?

Thanks in advance

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Hi @ajc,

this prettty much depends on your server / infrastructure setup. In our KBH deploymens in AWS we typically follow best industry practices applying 3-2-1 backup strategy:

  • Three copies in total
  • Two of them on different media types (physically separated, noit just two partitions)
  • One copy off-site in case of catastrophic failure

What we do exactly:

  1. Install the KHB on a separate disk to begin with
  2. User the build in Velero Snapshots Manager in the Kotsadm creatign and scheduling backups (locally and remotely)
  1. Use AWS EBS Block Storage with autoamtic Snapshot and Lifecycle management

Important to note, always test and never jsut assume the restore process is working.

Best, Mike
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