There are two ways to restore a specific backup for any Image Group to your target or DR cluster.
Restore through explicit Stage-2 sync.
Navigate to the 'Sync Administration' section, then select the 'All Replications' menu in the dashboard. Click the 'New' button and choose the 'Application Replication' option.
Select the 'Stage-2' sync type in the 'New Replication' dialog, then choose the Image Group you want to restore. You can specify either Kubernetes or OpenShift as the target platform.
A drop-down menu on the left side will display all available backups for the selected Image Group. Choose the backup you wish to restore to the specified DR or target cluster, and initiate a Stage-2 sync.
You can opt for either local or remote storage pool-based backups. SWIFT will first restore the selected backup to the local Image Group and then sync it to your target or DR cluster.
Restore through DR policy failover
Navigate to the 'Business Continuity & DR' menu, then go to the 'DR Policies' submenu.
Select the required staged sync DR policy that is currently backing up your application, then click the 'Failover' button.
once you select the specific DR policy operation that is backing up your production application, you will see a backup listing drop-down for the Image-Group that is used by the policy operation.
Select the required local or remote storage pool backup of your Image-Group and continue with the failover as usual.
Now behind the scenes, SWIFT will first restore that selected backup to the Image-Group and then sync the Image-Group over to the target or DR cluster.
After the failover completes, the target application will run with point-in-time copy of data and Kubernetes/OpenShift objects from the backup time
