Making scheduled backups

Backups schedule is defined in the backup section of the Custom Resource and can be configured via the deploy/cr.yaml file.

1. The backup.storages subsection should contain at least one configured storage.

2. The backup.schedule subsection allows to actually schedule backups:

   • set the backup.schedule.name key to some arbitray backup name (this name will be needed later to restore the bakup).

   • specify the backup.schedule.schedule option with the desired backup schedule in crontab format .

   • set the backup.schedule.storageName key to the name of your already configured storage.

   • you can optionally set the backup.schedule.keep key to the number of backups which should be kept in the storage.

Here is an example of the deploy/cr.yaml with a scheduled Saturday night backup kept on the Amazon S3 storage:

...
backup:
  storages:
    s3-us-west:
      type: s3
      s3:
        bucket: S3-BACKUP-BUCKET-NAME-HERE
        region: us-west-2
        credentialsSecret: my-cluster-name-backup-s3
  schedule:
   - name: "sat-night-backup"
     schedule: "0 0 * * 6"
     keep: 3
     storageName: s3-us-west
  ...

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Last update: 2025-02-20