View a backup repository

This document describes how to view a backup repository for virtual machines (VMs) in Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) air-gapped.

This document is for developers in platform administrator or application operator groups that manage VM Backup and restore operations. For more information, see Audiences for GDC air-gapped documentation.

Before you begin

To view a backup repository, you must have a storage bucket and S3 credentials for the bucket.

Request IAM roles

Ask your Organization IAM Admin to grant you the Organization Backup Admin (organization-backup-admin) role. This role creates, gets, lists, watches, updates, patches, and deletes VM backup repositories, VM backup plan templates, VM backup requests, and VM restore requests.

View a repository

View a backup repository GDC console or kubectl.

Console

View a list of repositories using the GDC console.

  1. Sign into the GDC console.
  2. In the navigation menu, click Backup for Virtual Machines > Repositories.
  3. Click a repository in the list to view its details.

kubectl

View a backup repository by listing the backup repositories and viewing their details using kubectl.

  1. List the existing backup repositories:

    kubectl get backuprepositories.backup.gdc.goog -n PROJECT_NAME

  2. In the list, find the backup repository that you want to view.

  3. View the backup repository details:

    kubectl describe backuprepositories.backup.gdc.goog BACKUP_REPOSITORY_NAME -n PROJECT_NAME

    Replace the following:

    • BACKUP_REPOSITORY_NAME: the name of the backup repository.
    • PROJECT_NAME: the name of the project.

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