Keep backups after deleting a node

When you delete a node, you can keep its CDP Backup recovery points. You can then restore the deleted node’s files onto another node later. Kept backups are still billed until you delete them.

Before you begin

The node’s Backup Status must read Available: keeping the backups is offered only then. With any other status, deleting the node deletes its backups with it. If it reads Backup Failed, fix the failure first; see Troubleshooting CDP Backup.

Keep the backups when you delete the node

For the full delete procedure, see Delete a node. When you delete the node, the delete dialog shows Keep CDP Backups for this node., already checked. Leave it checked to keep the backups, and finish deleting the node. If you uncheck it, the backups are deleted permanently along with the node. E2E sends no email about the deleted backups.

The kept backup stays in Manage CDP Backups, and its Backup Status reads Archived. No new backups are taken. It is billed like any other backup, on its licence and its storage, until you delete it.

Restore files from a kept backup

You can restore a kept backup’s files onto another of your nodes. Choose a node that:

• is in the same region as the deleted node
• runs the same kind of operating system, Linux or Windows
• has CDP Backup on, with its first backup finished: its Backup Status reads Available
• is outside every VPC

Check the node and the folder before you click Restore. Once you click Restore, the restore goes on until it is done. A restore skips any file whose name is already in the folder. To restore every file you select, choose an empty or new folder.

1. In Manage CDP Backups, click the kept backup and open its Backup Recovery Points tab.
2. Open a recovery point’s Actions and click Browse. If the backup is encrypted, enter the Passphrase and click Submit.
3. Select the files and folders, and click Restore Selected.
4. In Restore on Node, choose the node to restore to.
5. Under Location, choose Default to restore into a new folder under /e2e-backup-restore/ (c:\e2e-backup-restore\ on Windows). Or choose Alternate, and type a folder in Path, such as /home/restore. Use an absolute path. For a kept backup, the path cannot contain spaces or be / on its own.
6. Click Restore. For Alternate, check the path, and click Confirm Restore.

The restore starts with “Your backup restoration is in process.”, and E2E emails the account owner when the restore ends. A restore that skipped a file already in the folder reads Finished, and its email still says it failed; see The restore email says it failed, but the restore reads Finished.

A restore to a node in a VPC is refused with this message:

You can't restore backup for VPC.

For more on choosing files and following a restore, see Restore files from a recovery point.

Delete a kept backup

Deleting a kept backup permanently removes every recovery point in it, and ends its billing. Restore anything you still need first.

1. In Manage CDP Backups, open the kept backup’s Actions menu and click Delete.
2. In Confirm Delete Backup?, click Delete.

You see “Backup deleted Successfully.”

You can restore a deleted node’s files for as long as you keep its backup. For problems with a restore, see Troubleshooting CDP Backup.