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Pull request overview

This PR updates the Backup & Restore management documentation to add guidance for “encryption at rest” support in backup repositories and to refresh various UI/prose descriptions in the same page.

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  • Adds new sections describing backup encryption-at-rest concepts, supported workflows, repository configuration, and restore behavior for encrypted repositories.
  • Updates a number of UI-instruction sentences (including terminology such as “dropdown menu”) and revises various occurrences of “one” → “1”.

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* Key Encryption Keys (KEKs) — The repository encryption key is itself encrypted (enveloped) using either a passphrase-derived key or an external key from a Key Management Service (KMS).

For more information about the core encryption-at-rest architecture, including DEKs and KEKs, see xref:learn/security/encryption-at-rest.adoc[Encryption at Rest].
See xref:backup-restore/cbbackupmgr-encryption.adoc[cbbackupmgr encryption] for details.

* Backup Service — The Backup Service UI in Couchbase Web Console provides encryption options when creating a repository.
You can specify the KMS key URL, region, endpoint, and authentication type directly in the Create Repository dialog.
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Click the control that appears at the right-hand side of the *Select plan* dialog's interactive text-field.
A pull-down menu appears with the following options:
A dropdown menu appears with the following options:
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Alternatively, to choose a specific frequency, access the control on the *Period* field.
A dropdown menu appears:
image::manage-backup-restore/periodPullDownMenu.png[,420,align=left]
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From the pull-down menu, select *Hours*, to set the frequency is in units of hours.
From the dropdown menu, select *Hours*, to set the frequency is in units of hours.
These can be used to search for a specific document within the repository.
Optionally, the subset of backups within the repository can be specified, by means of the *Start* and *End* fields.
For example, by accessing the control at the left-hand side of the *Start* field, a pull-down menu is displayed: this lists backups any one of which can be used as the starting point for the search.
For example, by accessing the control at the left-hand side of the *Start* field, a dropdown menu is displayed: this lists backups any 1 of which can be used as the starting point for the search.

. To specify the first backup, access the interactive control at the right-hand side of the *Start* field.
This produces a pull-down menu that displays all available backups for this repository:
This produces a dropdown menu that displays all available backups for this repository:

. Select a backup that will be the starting backup for the merge.
Then, access the control at the right-hand side of the *End* field, and select, from its pull-down menu, a backup that will be the ending backup for the merge.
Then, access the control at the right-hand side of the *End* field, and select, from its dropdown menu, a backup that will be the ending backup for the merge.
Then, access the control at the right-hand side of the *End* field, and select, from its dropdown menu, a backup that will be the ending backup for the merge.

. Left-click on the *Merge Backups* button, at the lower right of the dialog.
The dialog now disappears, and any you will receive a console notification stating that you have triggered a merge.
image:manage-backup-restore/scheduleOptionsMenu.png[,420,align=left]

The pull-down menu thus displayed contains three kinds of scheduling option.
The dropdown menu thus displayed contains three kinds of scheduling option.
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