Backup and Restore

This article describes the actions that you can perform on the Backup and Restore blade available in the left pane of your Manage DaaS console.

Backup and Restore allows the administrator to take backups from the Studio UI.

To create on-demand backups

1. Sign in to Citrix Cloud.
2. In the DaaS tile, click Manage.
3. From the left-menu, select Backup and Restore.
4. Within the Backup and Restore tab, click Backup button.
5. On the Backup window, enter the notes, and select Backup.

After the backup completes successfully. It is listed as a line item under the Backup button in the Backup tab.

1. Select a particular backup to see more information on the backup in the Details tab.
2. You can pin or delete a selected backup using the pin or delete button respectively. You can perform the same action by right-clicking the selected backup.

Note:

Citrix stores the last 30 backups. When you create more than 30 backups, the system deletes old backups in the order they were created. For every new backup that is created in addition to the 30 backup limit, the system deletes the backup that was created first. Pin Backup is used to prevent automatic deletion of a particular backup. You can pin up to 5 backups. In case there are pinned backups, we retain all pinned backups in addition to 30 backups that is at most, you can retain 35 backups – 30 non-pinned, and 5 pinned backups.

To create scheduled backups

1. Sign in to Citrix Cloud.
2. In the DaaS tile, click Manage.
3. From the left menu, select Backup + Restore.
4. Go to the schedule tab and select Create Schedule.

5. On the Create Backup window, enter the following:

   • Enable this backup. Choose yes to enable this backup schedule.
   • Name. Enter a name for the backup schedule.
   • Description. Enter a description.
   • Time zone. Select the time zone of your choice.
   • Frequency. Select the frequency to run the backup.
   • Repeats every. Enter the number of days after which the schedule must be repeated.
   • Start date. Enter the start date.
   • Begin backup at. Enter the time when you want the backup to begin in a 24-hour format.
6. Select Done.
7. Select View Restore Details to see more information about the restore.

Restore

This feature allows the administrators to restore the site configurations from the backups. We allow you to restore one component at a time.

Note:

Restoring only one component at a time ensures that there are no conflicts during restoration due to the dependencies between the components.

1. Sign in to Citrix Cloud.
2. In the DaaS tile, click Manage.
3. From the left menu, select Backup and Restore.
4. Click a specific backup from the list.
5. Click Restore Backup button.

6. On the Restore Backup window, enter the following:

   • Components. Select the components that you want to restore.

   • Filters. Specify the member names that you want to restore in a comma-separated list. For example, filtering for the word chrome restores only objects with the name chrome. Similarly, the phrase chr** restores objects beginning with chr.

     

     

     Note: Select a backup and navigate to Details > Components > View Members to define filters corresponding to existing components and their members.

   • Check mode. Choose yes to confirm what would be restored when an actual restore operation is done. This option pre-evaluates everything needed for a restore without actually triggering one. For example, it displays the list of applications that will be restored when the restore process is run for the applications component.

     Note:

     Check mode does not run the actual restore. This option also does not check for any dependencies between the components. For optimal results, we recommend using the check mode on one component at a time.

   • Restore type. Choose either one:

     • Missing only. Use this restore type to add components and members to a site. This option does not change the existing components and members even if the backup being restored has different configurations.
     • Missing and updating existing. Use this restore type to add and update components to a site. This option updates the existing components and members with the configurations of the backup if both have different configurations.
   • Notes. Enter any notes.
7. Select Restore.

The restore results are listed in the Restore window after the restore action is completed. All restore actions are listed under the History tab.

History

You can track all the Backup+Restore actions in the History. This page gives you the following information:

• Action performed
• Components and members backed up
• Who performed the activity

Use the search bar on the top right in the History tab to search for a specific backup. For example: you can search for backups taken by a particular admin or taken on a particular day.