Manage a backup

This page provides instructions on how to view and delete existing backups of Harbor instances in Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped.

Delete unused Harbor backups to free up storage space and reduce costs. This best practice simplifies backup management and can improve the performance of backups.

Before you begin

To manage a backup, you must have access to the following:

  • The necessary identity and access roles:

    • Harbor Instance Admin: has full access to manage Harbor instances in a project. Ask your Organization IAM Admin to grant you the Harbor Instance Admin (harbor-instance-admin) role.
    • Secret Admin: required for operating in the GDC console. Ask your Organization IAM Admin to grant you the Secret Admin (secret-admin) role.

  • An existing backup. You create backups from the following sources:

View an existing backup

To view an existing backup, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to the GDC console.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Backup for harbor instance.
  3. Click Backups.
  4. View existing backups in the table.
  5. To view the details of a single backup, click the name of the backup in the table.

Delete a backup

Backups are deleted in two ways:

  • Backups are automatically deleted after the number of days in their backup plan retention policy is reached.
  • You delete backups manually.

To manually delete an existing backup, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to the GDC console.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Backup for harbor instance.
  3. Click Backups.
  4. Click the name of the backup you want to delete.
  5. Click Delete backup.
  6. In the confirmation dialog, enter the name of the backup that is being deleted.
  7. Click Delete backup.

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