Taking Backups On-Demand can be initiated from a few different locations in the Cloud.Red portal.
They can be initiated from the Backups and Device Groups sections.

Taking Backups Via the Backups Section

Taking backups from the Backups section is the best way to get started.
Click ā€œBackupsā€ on the left menu to enter the section.

The section includes an interactive walk-through that can be started by clicking the help icon in the lower right-hand corner


To take a backup, first select the device in the drop-down you wish to take a backup for.

Then, click the backup button and confirm via the pop-up dialog:

You will see status regarding your backups in the lower right-hand corner and when completed a notification in the upper right-hand corner.

Taking Backups Via the Device Groups Section

Click ā€œDevice Groupā€ on the left menu to enter the section.
To take a backup, first select the menu icon of the device groups you wish to initiate backups for and select ā€œBackupsā€

From the pop-up dialog, select the devices in the group you wish to initiate backups for and press ā€œCreateā€ to start the backups:

Min.MB

The ā€œMin.MBā€ option allows you to specify the amount of space the Cloud.Red Agent will require to be available on the BIGIPā€™s /var partition before executing. If this amount of space is not available on the BIGIPā€™s /var partition, creation of the backup will be skipped.

You will see status regarding your backups in the lower right-hand corner and when completed a notification in the upper right-hand corner.