Overview

Red Hat Edge Manager uses PostgreSQL to store device configurations, fleet records, user profiles, and system state. Implement backup strategies that support disaster recovery to protect this data.

Define your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) based on 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
Important

For full control plane recovery on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, use flightctl-backup and flightctl-restore from a workstation with cluster access. For more information about full server backup and restore overview, see Additional resources.

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