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En esta página, se describe cómo crear copias de seguridad de máquinas virtuales (VMs) y, al mismo tiempo, cumplir con los principios de copia de seguridad y restablecimiento aislados de Google Distributed Cloud (GDC).
También contiene instrucciones para ver una lista de copias de seguridad de VM y borrar las copias de seguridad de VM existentes.
Antes de comenzar
Para crear copias de seguridad de las VMs, debes tener lo siguiente:
Un repositorio y un plan de copias de seguridad existentes Una copia de seguridad manual debe hacer referencia a un plan de copia de seguridad existente para la configuración de la copia de seguridad.
Los roles de identidad y acceso necesarios son los siguientes:
Administrador de VirtualMachine del proyecto: Administra las VMs en el espacio de nombres del proyecto. Pídele al administrador de IAM del proyecto que te otorgue el rol de administrador de máquinas virtuales del proyecto (project-vm-admin).
Backup Creator: Crea copias de seguridad y restablecimientos manuales. Pídele al administrador de IAM del proyecto que te otorgue el rol de creador de copias de seguridad (backup-creator).
Visualizador del proyecto: Tiene acceso de solo lectura a todos los recursos dentro de los espacios de nombres del proyecto. Pídele al administrador de IAM del proyecto que te otorgue el rol de visualizador del proyecto (project-viewer).
Crea copias de seguridad de las VMs de forma manual
Haz copias de seguridad de las VMs con la consola de GDC o la API.
Console
Accede a la consola de GDC.
En el menú de navegación, haz clic en Copia de seguridad para máquinas virtuales.
Selecciona un proyecto.
Haz clic en la pestaña Copias de seguridad.
Haz clic en Crear una copia de seguridad.
En el campo de instancia de VM de origen, selecciona la VM de la que deseas crear una copia de seguridad.
Ingresa un Nombre para la copia de seguridad.
En el campo Plan de copia de seguridad, selecciona el plan de copia de seguridad para el que deseas crear una copia de seguridad.
Haz clic en Crear.
API
Emite una solicitud de copia de seguridad de la máquina virtual para iniciar una copia de seguridad:
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A manual backup must reference an existing backup plan for the backup configuration.\n- The necessary identity and access roles:\n\n - Project VirtualMachine Admin: manages VMs in the project namespace. Ask your Project IAM Admin to grant you the Project VirtualMachine Admin (`project-vm-admin`) role.\n - Backup Creator: creates manual backups and restores. Ask your Project IAM Admin to grant you the Backup Creator (`backup-creator`) role.\n - Project Viewer: has read-only access to all resources within project namespaces. Ask your Project IAM Admin to grant you the Project Viewer (`project-viewer`) role.\n\nManually back up VMs\n--------------------\n\nBack up VMs using either the GDC console or the API. \n\n### Console\n\n1. Sign into the GDC console.\n2. In the navigation menu, click **Backup for Virtual Machines**.\n3. Select a project.\n4. Click the **Backups** tab.\n5. Click **Create a backup**.\n6. In the **Source VM** instance field, select the VM that you want to back up.\n7. Enter a **Name** for the backup.\n8. In the **Backup plan** field, select the backup plan for which you want to to create a backup.\n9. Click **Create**.\n\n### API\n\nIssue a virtual machine backup request to initiate a backup: \n\n apiVersion: virtualmachine.gdc.goog/v1\n kind: VirtualMachineBackupRequest\n metadata:\n name: \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"devsite-syntax-l devsite-syntax-l-Scalar devsite-syntax-l-Scalar-Plain\"\u003eBACKUP_REQUEST_NAME\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/var\u003e\n spec:\n virtualMachineBackupPlanTemplate: \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"devsite-syntax-l devsite-syntax-l-Scalar devsite-syntax-l-Scalar-Plain\"\u003eVM_BACKUP_PLAN_TEMPLATE\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/var\u003e\n virtualMachine: \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"devsite-syntax-l devsite-syntax-l-Scalar devsite-syntax-l-Scalar-Plain\"\u003eVM_NAME\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/var\u003e\n virtualMachineBackupName: \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"devsite-syntax-l devsite-syntax-l-Scalar devsite-syntax-l-Scalar-Plain\"\u003eVM_BACKUP_NAME\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/var\u003e\n\nReplace the following:\n\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eBACKUP_REQUEST_NAME\u003c/var\u003e: name to give the backup request that is being initiated.\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eVM_BACKUP_PLAN_TEMPLATE\u003c/var\u003e: the name of the `VirtualMachineBackupPlanTemplate` resource to use for configuration of the backup.\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eVM_NAME\u003c/var\u003e: the name of the VM to back up.\n- \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eVM_BACKUP_NAME\u003c/var\u003e: the name of the backup to create.\n\nView VM backups\n---------------\n\nView a list of VM backups using the GDC console or `kubectl`. \n\n### Console\n\n1. Sign into the GDC console.\n2. In the navigation menu, click **Backup for Virtual Machines**.\n3. Select a project.\n4. Click the **Backups** tab.\n5. Click a backup in the list to view its details.\n\n### kubectl\n\nView a VM backup by listing the backups and viewing their details.\n\n1. List the existing backups:\n\n kubectl get virtualmachinebackups.virtualmachine.gdc.goog -n \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_NAME\u003c/var\u003e\n\n Replace \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_NAME\u003c/var\u003e with the name of the project.\n2. In the list, find the backup that you want to view.\n\n3. View the backup details:\n\n kubectl describe virtualmachinebackup.virtualmachine.gdc.goog \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eVM_BACKUP_NAME\u003c/var\u003e -n \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_NAME\u003c/var\u003e\n\n Replace the following:\n - \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eVM_BACKUP_NAME\u003c/var\u003e: the name of the backup.\n - \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_NAME\u003c/var\u003e: the name of the project.\n\nDelete a VM backup\n------------------\n\nDelete VM backups by using the GDC console or `kubectl`. \n\n### Console\n\n1. Sign in to the GDC console.\n2. In the navigation menu, click **Backup for Virtual Machines**.\n3. Select a project.\n4. Click the **Backups** tab.\n5. In the list of backups, find the backup to delete and click **Delete Backup**.\n6. In the **Backup name** field, enter the name of the backup to delete.\n7. Click **Delete Backup**.\n\n### kubectl\n\nDelete a VM backup using `kubectl`.\n\n1. List the existing VM backups:\n\n kubectl get virtualmachinebackups.virtualmachine.gdc.goog -n \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_NAME\u003c/var\u003e\n\n Replace \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_NAME\u003c/var\u003e with the name of the project.\n2. In the list, find the backup that you want to delete.\n\n3. Issue a `VirtualMachineDeleteBackupRequest` to delete the backup:\n\n apiVersion: virtualmachine.gdc.goog/v1\n kind: VirtualMachineDeleteBackupRequest\n metadata:\n name: \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"devsite-syntax-l devsite-syntax-l-Scalar devsite-syntax-l-Scalar-Plain\"\u003eDELETE_BACKUP_REQUEST_NAME\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/var\u003e\n namespace: \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"devsite-syntax-l devsite-syntax-l-Scalar devsite-syntax-l-Scalar-Plain\"\u003ePROJECT_NAME\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/var\u003e\n spec:\n virtualMachineBackupRef:\n name: \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"devsite-syntax-l devsite-syntax-l-Scalar devsite-syntax-l-Scalar-Plain\"\u003eVM_BACKUP_NAME\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/var\u003e\n\n Replace the following:\n - \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eDELETE_BACKUP_REQUEST_NAME\u003c/var\u003e: the name to give the `VirtualMachineDeleteBackupRequest` that is being initiated.\n - \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003eVM_BACKUP_NAME\u003c/var\u003e: the name of the backup to delete.\n - \u003cvar translate=\"no\"\u003ePROJECT_NAME\u003c/var\u003e: the name of the project.\n\nWhat's next\n-----------\n\n- [Create a VM from a backup](/distributed-cloud/hosted/docs/latest/gdch/platform-application/pa-ao-operations/vm-backup/create-vm-from-backup)"]]
