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    Cloud Backup:Step 4: Create a protection group

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    Cloud Backup:Step 4: Create a protection group

    Last Updated:May 31, 2024

    A protection group can contain multiple Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances. This allows you to use a plan to perform centralized operations on multiple ECS instances. If you use EBS async replication for disaster recovery, you must create a protection group. This topic describes how to create a protection group.

    Prerequisites

    vSwitch mappings and security group mappings are configured. For more information, see Step 3: Configure network and security settings.

    Procedure

    1. Log on to the Cloud Backup console.

    2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Disaster Recovery > ECS Disaster Recovery.

    3. If you are not using EBS Async Replication, click Switch to EBS Async Replication.image

    4. On the Site Pairs tab, click the site pair, and then click the Protection Group tab.

    5. On the Protection Group tab, click Create Protection Group.

      Important

      Before you create a protection group, you must create vSwitch mappings and security group mappings. For more information, see Step 3: Configure network and security settings.

    6. In the Create Protection Group dialog box, configure the parameters and then click OK. The following table describes the parameters.

      Parameter

      Description

      Name

      The name of the protection group. Specify a recognizable name. The name must meet the following requirements:

      • The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length.

      • The name must start with a letter and cannot start with http:// or https://.

      • The name can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).

      Expected RPO

      Set the value to 15. Unit: minutes. The expected recovery point objective (RPO) of the protection group. An RPO is a time-based measurement of the maximum amount of data loss that is tolerable to a business system.

      Zone of Production Site

      The zone where the production site is deployed.

      Zone of DR Site

      The zone where the disaster recovery site is deployed.

      After the protection group is created, you can find it on the Protection Group tab. The protection group is in the Initializing state.image.png

    What to do next

    After you create a protection group, you can perform the following operations.

    Operation

    Description

    Manage Protected Instance

    Add an instance to the protection group or remove an instance that no longer requires protection from the protection group.

    Enable Replication

    After you add an instance to the protection group, click Enable Replication to replicate data from the protected instance to the disaster recovery site.

    Disable Replication

    Stop replicating data to the disaster recovery site.

    Manage Protection Group

    Modify or delete the protection group that contains no instance. After an instance is added to the protection group, you cannot modify the protection group information.

    Forward Protection

    • Forward Protection > Enable Replication: Replicate data from a protected instance to the disaster recovery site.

    • Forward Protection > Disable Replication: Stop replicating data from a protected instance to the disaster recovery site.

    • Forward Protection > Failover: Switch an instance from the primary site to the disaster recovery site. The instance at the disaster recovery site takes over the business.

    • Forward Protection > Failover Completed: Confirm that the failover is complete.

    Enable Reverse Replication

    After the disaster recovery site takes over the business and the production site has recovered, replicate data from the disaster recovery site to the production site to prepare for the failback.

    Reverse Protection

    • Reverse Protection > Enable Replication: After the disaster recovery site takes over the business and the production site has recovered, replicate data from the disaster recovery site to the production site to prepare for the failback.

    • Reverse Protection > Disable Replication: Stop replicating data from the disaster recovery site to the primary site.

    • Reverse Protection > Failback: Switch an instance from the disaster recovery site to the production site. The instance at the production site takes over the business.

    • Reverse Protection > Failback Completed: Confirm that the failback is complete.

    Clear Protection Group

    You can delete a protection group if you no longer need it.

    Fault Drill

    Start a fault drill for the protection group.

    Note

    You can perform a fault drill if the protection group is in the Replicating Incremental Data state or has a recovery point. For more information, see Fault drill.

    Delete Fault Drill Group

    After the fault drill is complete, delete the fault drill group.