Recovery in the UI

To initiate a PITR, enter the time that you want to restore back to in Coordinated Universal Time. If you want to restore to the most recent available time, select that option. Clicking the Restore button brings up the new provisioning UI in a tab with the options for your recovery. Enter the service details, allocate resources, and set the database version, encryption and endpoint for your new deployment. Click Point in time recovery to start the process.

If you use Key Protect and have a key, you must use the CLI to recover, and a command is provided for your convenience.

Recovery in the CLI

The Resource controller supports provisioning of database deployments, and provisioning and restoring are the responsibility of the Resource controller CLI. Use the resource service-instance-create command.

For PITR, use the point_in_time_recovery_time and point_in_time_recovery_deployment_id parameters. The point_in_time_recovery_deployment_id is the source deployment's ID and point_in_time_recovery_time is the timestamp in Coordinated Universal Time you want to restore to. To restore to the latest available point-in-time, use "point_in_time_recovery_time":" ".

ibmcloud resource service-instance-create <databases-for-postgresql> <INSTANCE_NAME> <REGION> -p '{"point_in_time_recovery_deployment_id":"DEPLOYMENT_ID", "point_in_time_recovery_time":"TIMESTAMP", "version":" "}'

A pre-formatted command for a specific backup or PITR is available in detailed view of the backup.

When restoring through the CLI, optional parameters are available. Use them to customize resources or use a Key Protect key for BYOK encryption on the new deployment.

ibmcloud resource service-instance-create <databases-for-postgresql> <INSTANCE_NAME> standard <REGION> <--service-endpoints SERVICE_ENDPOINTS_TYPE> -p
'{"point_in_time_recovery_deployment_id":"DEPLOYMENT_ID", "point_in_time_recovery_time":"TIMESTAMP","key_protect_key":"KEY_PROTECT_KEY_CRN", "members_disk_allocation_mb":"DESIRED_DISK_IN_MB", "members_memory_allocation_mb":"DESIRED_MEMORY_IN_MB", "members_cpu_allocation_count":"NUMBER_OF_CORES", "version":" "}'

Recovery in the API

The Resource Controller supports provisioning of database deployments, and provisioning and restoring are the responsibility of the Resource Controller API. You need to complete the necessary steps to use the resource controller API before you can use it to restore from a backup.

Once you have all the information, the create request is a POST to the /resource_instances endpoint.

curl -X POST \
  https://resource-controller.cloud.ibm.com/v2/resource_instances \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -d '{
    "name": "<INSTANCE_NAME>",
    "target": "<REGION>",
    "resource_group": "<RESOURCE_GROUP>",
    "resource_plan_id": "<SERVICE_ID>",
    "parameters": {
      "point_in_time_recovery_time": "<TIMESTAMP>",
      "point_in_time_recovery_deployment_id": "<DEPLOYMENT_ID>"
    }
  }'

The parameters name, target, resource_group, and resource_plan_id are all required. The target is the region where you want the new deployment to be located, which can be a different region from the source deployment. Cross region restores are supported, except for restoring a eu-de backup to another region.

For PITR, use the point_in_time_recovery_time and point_in_time_recovery_deployment_id parameters. The point_in_time_recovery_deployment_id is the source deployment's ID and point_in_time_recovery_time is the timestamp in Coordinated Universal Time you want to restore to. To restore to the latest available point-in-time use "point_in_time_recovery_time":" ".

Pass these parameters in the parameters object of the request body. To customize resource allocations or use a Key Protect key, add the applicable parameters to the same object: key_protect_key, members_disk_allocation_mb, members_memory_allocation_mb, and members_cpu_allocation_count.