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
  ...

Note

Before the Operator version 1.10 scheduled backups were based on Kubernetes CronJobs , while newer Operator versions take care about scheduled backups itself. Clusters upgraded from the Operator version 1.9 may need manual deletion of scheduled backups CronJobs, if any existed prior to the upgrade (otherwise backups will run twice).

You can check if there are any CronJobs in the namespace of your cluster related to scheduled backups as follows:

$ kubectl get cronjobs -n <namespace>

Expected output

NAME SCHEDULE SUSPEND ACTIVE LAST SCHEDULE AGE
sat-night-backup 0 0 * * 6 False 0 <none> 4m36s

Deleting CronJob is straightforward:

$ kubectl delete cronjob sat-night-backup -n <namespace>

Expected output

cronjob.batch "sat-night-backup" deleted

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Last update: 2025-06-17