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Use OpenShift API for Data Protection (OADP) to safeguard applications, application-related cluster resources, persistent volumes, and internal images on OKD. OADP backs up containerized applications and virtual machines (VMs). This helps you ensure disaster recovery.

However, OADP does not serve as a disaster recovery solution for etcd or OpenShift Operators.

OADP support is applicable to customer workload namespaces and cluster scope resources.

Full cluster backup and restore are not supported.

OpenShift API for Data Protection APIs

OADP provides APIs that enable multiple approaches to customizing backups and preventing the inclusion of unnecessary or inappropriate resources.

OADP provides the following APIs. See the Additional resources section for more details.

  • Backup

  • Restore

  • Schedule

  • BackupStorageLocation

  • VolumeSnapshotLocation

Support for OpenShift API for Data Protection

Review the OADP support matrix for version compatibility with OKD releases and lifecycle policy information, including Extended Update Support (EUS) options.

Table 1. Supported versions of OADP

Version

OKD version

General availability

Full support ends

Maintenance ends

Extended Update Support (EUS)

Extended Update Support Term 2 (EUS Term 2)

1.5

  • 4.19

  • 4.20

  • 4.21

17 June 2025

Release of 1.6

Release of 1.7

EUS must be on OKD 4.21

EUS Term 2 must be on OKD 4.21

1.4

  • 4.14

  • 4.15

  • 4.16

  • 4.17

  • 4.18

10 Jul 2024

Release of 1.5

Release of 1.6

27 Jun 2026

EUS must be on OKD 4.16

27 Jun 2027

EUS Term 2 must be on OKD 4.16

1.3

  • 4.12

  • 4.13

  • 4.14

  • 4.15

29 Nov 2023

10 Jul 2024

Release of 1.5

31 Oct 2025

EUS must be on OKD 4.14

31 Oct 2026

EUS Term 2 must be on OKD 4.14

Unsupported versions of the OADP Operator

Table 2. Previous versions of the OADP Operator which are no longer supported

Version

General availability

Full support ended

Maintenance ended

1.2

14 Jun 2023

29 Nov 2023

10 Jul 2024

1.1

01 Sep 2022

14 Jun 2023

29 Nov 2023

1.0

09 Feb 2022

01 Sep 2022

14 Jun 2023

For more details about EUS, see Extended Update Support.

For more details about EUS Term 2, see Extended Update Support Term 2.