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Island 5 · Cluster Maintenance · Port 5.5

Backup: what to back up

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Someone deleted namespace prod. What brings it back?
You'll learn to

choose resource-config vs etcd snapshot

Recap

  1. 1Resource files in Git, or the API (Velero)
  2. 2etcd snapshot = the whole cluster state
  3. 3Persistent volumes need their own backup
Check yourself

You run a managed cluster with no access to etcd. How do you back up?

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