Overview
Ironcore Backup Solution (IBS) protects compute instances, system containers, and physical hosts in your project. As a project member you create backups, browse the snapshot history, and restore data using either the Dashboard or the CLI — without coordinating with the infrastructure team. This guide covers creating backups, scheduling recurring jobs, restoring single files or full VMs, and monitoring backup job status.Backups are written to a datastore your administrator has provisioned. Encryption keys,
retention policies, and replication targets are configured platform-wide. Contact your
administrator if you need access to a specific datastore or namespace.
In This Guide
How It Works
Understand block-level change tracking, deduplication, and the full backup-to-restore flow.
Create a Backup
Create on-demand backups of virtual machines, system containers, and physical hosts.
Backup Jobs
Schedule recurring daily incremental and weekly full backup jobs with retention windows.
Restore Options
Restore a full VM with live-restore, browse snapshots, and recover individual files.
Monitor Jobs
Track running backup and restore tasks, view job history, and read verification reports.
Troubleshooting
Resolve failed backups, restore errors, and encryption key access issues.
Key Concepts
Snapshot
A point-in-time backup of a single workload (VM, container, or host). Each snapshot
is uniquely identified by its source ID and timestamp.
Backup Group
All snapshots of the same source (for example, all backups of
vm/12345) grouped
together for browsing and retention.Datastore
The storage location where backups are written. Each datastore can host multiple
backup groups and is governed by an access policy.
Namespace
A logical partition inside a datastore. Useful for separating production, staging,
and per-team backups while sharing the same deduplication pool.
Quick Reference
| Action | Dashboard Path | CLI Command |
|---|---|---|
| Create a backup | Backups > Snapshots > Create | ironcore-backup backup create |
| Schedule a job | Backups > Jobs > New Job | ironcore-backup job create |
| Browse a snapshot | Backups > Snapshots > Open | ironcore-backup snapshot show |
| Restore a file | Snapshot detail > File Browser | ironcore-backup file restore |
| Restore a VM | Snapshot detail > Restore VM | ironcore-backup vm restore |
| Live-restore | Snapshot detail > Live-Restore | ironcore-backup vm restore --live |
Next Steps
Ironcore Backup Admin Guide
Configure datastores, retention, replication, and tape archival across the platform.
Ironcore Backup Overview
Service overview, feature summary, and getting started.