First of all we will stop OSM services, so no changes are done while we do the backup.
```bash
juju scale-application grafana 0
juju scale-application prometheus 0
juju scale-application kafka-k8s 0
juju scale-application keystone 0
juju scale-application lcm 0
juju scale-application mon 0
juju scale-application nbi 0
juju scale-application ng-ui 0
juju scale-application pla 0
juju scale-application pol 0
juju scale-application ro 0
juju scale-application zookeeper-k8s 0
```
Wait for all the applications to scale to 0. The output of `juju status` should look similar to the following, with only `mariadb-k8s` and `mongodb-k8s` units left.
```
Model Controller Cloud/Region Version SLA Timestamp
osm osm-vca microk8s/localhost 2.8.13 unsupported 20:57:44Z
App Version Status Scale Charm Store Rev OS Address Notes
grafana docker.io/ubuntu/grafana@sh... active 0 grafana jujucharms 4 kubernetes 10.152.183.45
kafka-k8s rocks.canonical.com:443/wur... active 0 kafka-k8s jujucharms 21 kubernetes 10.152.183.248
keystone keystone:10.0.3 active 0 keystone jujucharms 9 kubernetes 10.152.183.114
lcm lcm:10.0.3 active 0 lcm jujucharms 8 kubernetes 10.152.183.70
mariadb-k8s rocks.canonical.com:443/mar... active 1 mariadb-k8s jujucharms 35 kubernetes 10.152.183.177
mon mon:10.0.3 active 0 mon jujucharms 5 kubernetes 10.152.183.227
mongodb-k8s mongo:latest active 1 mongodb-k8s jujucharms 29 kubernetes 10.152.183.63
nbi nbi:10.0.3 active 0 nbi jujucharms 12 kubernetes 10.152.183.163
ng-ui ng-ui:10.0.3 active 0 ng-ui jujucharms 21 kubernetes 10.152.183.180
pla pla:10.0.3 active 0 pla jujucharms 9 kubernetes 10.152.183.7
pol pol:10.0.3 active 0 pol jujucharms 4 kubernetes 10.152.183.104
prometheus docker.io/ed1000/prometheus... active 0 prometheus jujucharms 4 kubernetes 10.152.183.120
ro ro:10.0.3 active 0 ro jujucharms 4 kubernetes 10.152.183.159
zookeeper-k8s rocks.canonical.com:443/k8s... active 0 zookeeper-k8s jujucharms 37 kubernetes 10.152.183.201
Unit Workload Agent Address Ports Message
mariadb-k8s/0* active idle 10.1.244.152 3306/TCP ready
mongodb-k8s/0* active idle 10.1.244.156 27017/TCP ready
```
Now, the databases can be backed up using the following commands: