Linking a VM or Yandex BareMetal server to a backup policy

If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI installed yet, install and initialize it.

By default, the CLI uses the folder specified when creating the profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also set a different folder for any specific command using the --folder-name or --folder-id parameter.

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

   yc backup policy apply --help
   

2. Get the ID of the policy to link the VM or BareMetal server 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.*.* |
   +----------------------+---------+---------------+---------+--------------+-------------+
   

   To get the BareMetal server IDs, select BareMetal from the list of services of the relevant folder in the management console. The IDs are specified in the server list in the ID field.

4. Link the VM or BareMetal server by the policy ID:

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

   Where --instance-ids are the IDs of the VMs or BareMetal servers connected to Cloud Backup you need to link to the backup policy. Multiple IDs should be comma-separated.

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

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