Linking a VM to a backup policy

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud command line interface yet, install and initialize it.

The folder specified in the CLI profile is used by default. You can specify a different folder using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

1. View a description of the CLI command to link a VM to a backup policy:

   yc backup policy apply --help
   

2. Get the ID of the policy to link the VM to:

   yc backup policy list
   

   Result:

   +----------------------+----------------------+---------+---------+---------------------+---------------------+
   |          ID          |      FOLDER ID       |  NAME   | ENABLED |     CREATED AT      |     UPDATED AT      |
   +----------------------+----------------------+---------+---------+---------------------+---------------------+
   | abc7n3wln123******** | ghi681qpe789******** | policy1 | true    | 2023-07-03 09:12:02 | 2023-07-03 09:12:43 |
   | deflqbiwc456******** | ghi681qpe789******** | policy2 | true    | 2023-07-07 14:58:23 | 2023-07-07 14:58:23 |
   +----------------------+----------------------+---------+---------+---------------------+---------------------+
   

3. Get the ID of the VM to link:

   yc compute instance list
   

   Result:

   +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+
   |          ID          |  NAME   |    ZONE ID    | STATUS  | EXTERNAL IP  | INTERNAL IP |
   +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+
   | jklp0o9i8012******** | my-vm-1 | ru-central1-b | RUNNING | 51.250.**.** | 192.168.*.* |
   | mnoa5s6d8345******** | my-vm-2 | ru-central1-b | RUNNING | 84.201.**.** | 192.168.*.* |
   +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+
   

4. Link the VM by specifying its ID:

   yc backup policy apply <policy_ID> \
     --instance-ids <VM_IDs>
   

   Where --instance-ids are the IDs of the VMs you need to link to the backup policy. Multiple IDs should be comma-separated.

For more information about the command, see the CLI reference.

Use the apply REST API method for the Policy resource or the PolicyService/Apply gRPC API call.