Overview

PostgreSQL is the primary data store for the Red Hat Edge Manager control plane. It holds device and fleet configuration, organizations, templates, and user metadata.

You must define a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) that matches your business requirements, compliance obligations, and risk tolerance. Typical baselines include the following:

  • Mission-critical environments: RPO on the order of 15 minutes
  • Non-production or development environments: RPO up to 24 hours

For full control plane recovery (database, PKI, and configuration in one archive), use flightctl-backup and flightctl-restore. For more information about full server backup and restore overview, see Additional resources.

Important

You are responsible for retention, scheduling, and off-host storage of backup archives. Red Hat Edge Manager provides backup and restore commands and documents strategy; it does not manage your backup infrastructure or remote storage targets.