backup-and-restore-tkgi.html.md.erb

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title: Backing Up and Restoring the TKGI Management Plane
owner: TKGI
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This topic describes how to back up and restore the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI) Management Plane.

## Overview

Back up and restore of the TKGI Management Plane includes the following components: 

- Ops Manager configuration, including the BOSH Director and TKGI tiles.
- The TKGI Management Plane VMs, including the [BOSH Director VM](bbr-backup-tkgi.html#back-up-director), and the [TKGI Control Plane VM](bbr-backup-tkgi.html#back-up-control-plane).

You use Ops Manager to back up and restore the BOSH Director and TKGI tiles. You use [BOSH Backup and Restore](https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/bbr/index.html) (BBR) to back up and restore the TKGI Management Plane VMs. Restoring the Ops Manager VM is a manual process.

To back up and restore the TKGI Management Plane, see the following topics:

- [Install and Configure BBR](bbr-install-config.html).
- [Backing Up TKGI Management Plane Components](bbr-backup-tkgi.html).
- [Restoring TKGI Management Plane Components](bbr-restore-tkgi.html).

## Testing Considerations

As part of your TKGI back up and restore planning and testing, consider the following test scenario.

- Export Ops Manager configuration.  
- Take a back up of TKGI Management Plane using BBR.
- Power off the Ops Manager, BOSH, and TKGI Control Plane VMs. 
- Deploy a new Ops Manager VM and import the exported configuration. 
- Restore BOSH and TKGI VMs using BBR. 

On restore of all TKGI Management Plane components, confirm there has not been a loss of data for configurations included in the backups. Any TKGI configuration changes made after the backup was taken are not restored since they were made after the backup.