Use our new backup service CBR and migrate your CSBS and VBS backups

The migration functionality that allows you to migrate VBS & CSBS backups to the Cloud Backup & Recovery Service (CBR) is now available to all customers of the Open Telekom Cloud. This means you can now easily make use of the CBR service and migrate your existing backups with just a few clicks. The CBR service offers the most comprehensive feature set of our backup portfolio and is constantly being further developed.

How does the migration work?

Start your migration from the Open Telekom Cloud – Cloud Backup & Recovery Console resp. user interface. Here you can find a new button called "Migrate to CBR". Afterwards a migration notice will be shown that you need to accept. Please read the notice carefully as it provides some usefull information about the migration process.

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Once you start the migration, a new vault is created for each policy used for your VBS/CSBS backups. Your policy configuration is kept and connected to the vault. Afterwards disks/server are connected.

Important Note: Please be aware that existing CSBS/VBS policies had to create at least 1 backup. If there are VBS/CSBS policies existing that did not create a single backup, then those policies won´t be migrated. The vaults as well as the connection to disks/server needs to be created manually after the migration process has taken place. 

As CBR service is using vaults as backup data repository, the configured size matches upcoming rules:

Rule 1: When "total server/disk capacity > backup size x 1.2", then the vault will have the same size as the total server/disk capacity

Example: You have a ECS with 100 GB capacity, but you consume 20 GB only. You have 1 Backup in place consuming 20 GB, then the rule will be as following:

Total Server/Disk capacity (100 GB) > Backup Size x 1.2 (20 x 1,2 = 24 GB)

According to the rule the Vault size will be 100GB.

Rule 2: When "total server/disk capacity < backup size x 1.2", then the vault will have the capacity of "backup size x 1.2"

Example: You have a ECS with 100 GB capacity, but you consume 50 GB only. You have 3 Full Backups in place with a consumption of 147 GB, then the rule will be as following:

Total Server/Disk capacity (100GB) < Backup Size x 1.2 (147 x 1,2 = 176,4 GB)

According to the rule the Vault size will be 176,4 GB.

Please feel free to cross check our user manual to gain deeper insights of the migration functionality.

If you have any questions, please feel free to join our Open Telekom Cloud Community and post your question.