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- Overview
- Requirements
- Pre-installation
- Preparing the installation
- Downloading the installation packages
- Configuring the OCI-compliant registry
- Granting installation permissions
- Installing and configuring the service mesh
- Installing and configuring the GitOps tool
- Installing the External Secrets Operator in Kubernetes
- Applying miscellaneous configurations
- Running uipathctl
- Installation
- Post-installation
- Migration and upgrade
- Monitoring and alerting
- Cluster administration
- Performing database maintenance
- Configuring the FQDN post-installation
- Forwarding logs to external tools
- Switching to the secondary cluster manually in an Active/Passive setup
- Converting an existing installation to multi-site setup
- Guidelines on upgrading an Active/Passive deployment
- Guidelines on backing up and restoring an Active/Passive deployment
- Product-specific configuration
- Troubleshooting

Automation Suite on EKS/AKS installation guide
Last updated Mar 9, 2026
Guidelines on backing up and restoring an Active/Passive deployment
Note:
For detailed instructions on how to back up and restore Automation Suite, see Backing up and restoring the cluster.
Backing up the cluster
- You must back up only the primary cluster and external storage (SQL and Objectstore).
- It is not mandatory to take a backup of the secondary cluster. Instead, you can choose to take a backup of the secondary. However, you can still use the primary cluster to set up the secondary cluster.
Restoring the primary cluster
- If the primary cluster goes down, you must use the backup to restore it.
- If configuration changes were made on the secondary cluster while the primary cluster was down, follow these steps to ensure the restored primary reflects the latest configuration:
- Merge configurations from the primary and secondary clusters to create an updated
input.jsonthat includes all changes made on the secondary after the primary went down. - Apply any required updates to parameters that are specific to the primary cluster.
- Restore the primary cluster using the merged
input.jsonfile.
- Merge configurations from the primary and secondary clusters to create an updated
Restoring the secondary cluster
- If the secondary cluster's backup is unavailable, you can restore it from the primary cluster by taking the following steps:
- Generate the
input.jsonfrom the primary cluster. - Update the
input.jsonwith the specific value of the secondary cluster. - Install the secondary cluster.
- Generate the
- If the backup for the secondary cluster is available, you can restore the secondary cluster from the backup.