Policy

Available in Classic and VPC

Policy describes how to create, edit, and delete the policies that will be applied to the page composition and backup task of the Policy menu.

Policy page

The Policy page is laid out as follows:

Create policy

To backup the data, create a policy at the storage where you will store the backup data.
To create tasks, follow these steps:

1. Click the environment you are using in the Region menu and the Platform menu on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Click Services > Storage > Backup, in order.
3. Click Backup > Policy in order.
4. Click the [Create policy] button.
5. When the policy creation page comes up, set up the policy information and click the [Next] button.

   • Policy name: enter the original name that works as the standard for the policy management

     • The name should consist of lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens (-); must start with an English letter. The total length must be from 3-30 characters.

   • Retention period: the period for storing the backup data

     • The default retention period is 7 days. Based on the backup cycle, you can set the period from at least 7 days to at most 365 days. In addition, you must set the retention period at least 2 times longer than the backup cycle.
     Note

     You can set up the backup cycle during the create schedule step, the retention period applicable by backup cycle is as follows:

     • Daily: minimum of 7 days to maximum of 365 days
     • Weekly: minimum of 14 days to maximum of 365 days
     • Monthly: minimum of 60 days to maximum of 365 days

   • Zone: select the zone where the policy will be created

   • Connecting storage: the name of the storage in the selected zone automatically appears, and the policy is created in the storage

6. After confirming the settings, click the [Create policy] button.
   • The policy status displays creating on the list, and after the creation, the status changes to creation completed.

Edit policy

You can edit the retention period of the policy among the setup information of the policy.
To edit policies, follow these steps:

1. Click the environment you are using in the Region menu and the Platform menu on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Click Services > Storage > Backup, in order.
3. Click Backup > Policy in order.
4. After clicking the task you want to edit from the list of policies, click the [Edit] button.
5. Edit the retention period, and then click the [Edit] button.
   • The policy status displays editing, and after the editing is complete, it changes to creation completed.

Delete policy

To delete policies, follow these steps:

1. Click the environment you are using in the Region menu and the Platform menu on the NAVER Cloud Platform console.
2. Click Services > Storage > Backup, in order.
3. Click Backup > Policy in order.
4. Click to select the policy to delete from the policy list, and click the [Delete] button.
5. After viewing the popup window of policy deletion, click the check box.
6. Click the [Delete] button.
   • The policy status displays deleting, and after the deletion it disappears from the list of policies.