You may want to have regular backups of your instances. Morpehus is able to create "jobs" that will regularly create these backups. You will need to have a Storage target (S3 Bucket) defined first.

First: set up a Bucket to store the backups

You need to set up a Storage target in Morpheus to save your backups.

  1. Go to Infrastructure → Storage → Buckets.
  2. Click +ADD → Amazon S3.
  3. Complete the NEW BUCKET form:

  1. You can choose a display NAME for the Morpheus interface.
  2. ACCESS KEY, SECRET KEY, BUCKET NAME and ENDPOINT URL will be provided by Support (Note that you can also add your own S3 Bucket). For example, for ECMWF storage it would be https://storage.ecmwf.europeanweather.cloud
  3. If the bucket does not already exist and you want to create it, tick CREATE BUCKET.
  4. Tick USE PATH STYLE BUCKET ACCESS.
  5. You may want to tick DEFAULT BACKUP TARGET.
  6. Click SAVE CHANGES.

Set up the backup when you create the Instance

  1. Follow the Provision a new instance - web steps to create a new Instance.
  2. Set up the backup during the AUTOMATION step:

  1. Choose BACKUP TYPE → Openstack Snapshot
  2. Give the backup a name.
  3. In BACKUP TARGET choose from the drop-down menu the storage provider you have created in the Infrastructure → Storage section.
  4. Select a RETENTION COUNT: Default maximum number of successful backups to retain.
  5. Select a BACKUP SCHEDULE
  6. Once the instance has been created, you will be able to check the progress in the BACKUPS tab or from the Menu → Backups → Backups


Set up the backup for an already created instance

  1. Go to the Menu → Backups → Backups and click +ADD.
  2. Select INSTANCE as SELECT SOURCE.
  3. Search for the name of the INSTANCE you want to backup and give it a Backup name:

  1. In STORAGE choose from the drop-down menu the storage provider you have created in the Infrastructure → Storage section.
  2. Select a RETENTION COUNT: Default maximum number of successful backups to retain.
  3. Select a BACKUP SCHEDULE
  4. Once the instance has been created, you will be able to check the progress in the BACKUPS tab or from the Menu → Backups → Backups