We should have installed the ZFS-LocalPV 1.0.0 or later version for the Backup and Restore, see readme for the steps to install the ZFS-LocalPV driver.
| Project | Minimum Version |
|---|---|
| ZFS-LocalPV | 1.0.0+ |
| Velero | 1.5+ |
| Velero-Plugin | 2.2.0+ |
follow the steps mentioned here to install velero CLI
setup the credential file
$ cat /home/pawan/velero/credentials-minio
[default]
aws_access_key_id = minio
aws_secret_access_key = minio123
We can install Velero by using below command
velero install --provider aws --bucket velero --secret-file /home/pawan/velero/credentials-minio --plugins velero/velero-plugin-for-aws:v1.0.0-beta.1 --backup-location-config region=minio,s3ForcePathStyle="true",s3Url=http://minio.velero.svc:9000 --use-volume-snapshots=true --use-restic
We have to install the velero 1.5 or later version for ZFS-LocalPV.
Deploy the minio for storing the backup :-
$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openebs/zfs-localpv/master/deploy/sample/minio.yaml
The above minio uses tmp directory inside the pod to store the data, so when restart happens, the backed up data will be gone. We can change the above yaml to use persistence storage to store the data so that we can persist the data after restart.
Check the Velero Pods are UP and Running
$ kubectl get po -n velero
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
minio-d787f4bf7-xqmq5 1/1 Running 0 8s
minio-setup-prln8 0/1 Completed 0 8s
restic-4kx8l 1/1 Running 0 69s
restic-g5zq9 1/1 Running 0 69s
restic-k7k4s 1/1 Running 0 69s
velero-7d9c448bc5-j424s 1/1 Running 3 69s
We can Install the Velero Plugin for ZFS-LocalPV using below command
velero plugin add openebs/velero-plugin:2.2.0
We have to install the velero-plugin 2.2.0 or later version which has the support for ZFS-LocalPV. Once setup is done, we can go ahead and create the backup/restore.
We can create 3 kind of backups for ZFS-LocalPV. Let us go through them one by one:
To take the full backup, we can create the Volume Snapshot Location as below :
apiVersion: velero.io/v1
kind: VolumeSnapshotLocation
metadata:
name: zfspv-full
namespace: velero
spec:
provider: openebs.io/zfspv-blockstore
config:
bucket: velero
prefix: zfs
namespace: openebs # this is the namespace where ZFS-LocalPV creates all the CRs, passed as OPENEBS_NAMESPACE env in the ZFS-LocalPV deployment
provider: aws
region: minio
s3ForcePathStyle: "true"
s3Url: http://minio.velero.svc:9000The volume snapshot location has the information about where the snapshot should be stored. Here we have to provide the namespace which we have used as OPENEBS_NAMESPACE env while deploying the ZFS-LocalPV. The ZFS-LocalPV Operator yamls uses "openebs" as default value for OPENEBS_NAMESPACE env. Verify the volumesnapshot location:
kubectl get volumesnapshotlocations.velero.io -n velero
Now, we can execute velero backup command using the above VolumeSnapshotLocation and the ZFS-LocalPV plugin will take the full backup. We can use the below velero command to create the full backup, we can add all the namespaces we want to be backed up in a comma separated format in --include-namespaces parameter.
velero backup create my-backup --snapshot-volumes --include-namespaces=<backup-namespace> --volume-snapshot-locations=zfspv-full --storage-location=default
We can check the backup status using velero backup get command:
$ velero backup get
NAME STATUS CREATED EXPIRES STORAGE LOCATION SELECTOR
my-backup InProgress 2020-09-14 21:09:06 +0530 IST 29d default <none>
Once Status is Completed, the backup has been taken successfully.
To create the scheduled full backup, we can create the Volume Snapshot Location same as above to create the full backup:
apiVersion: velero.io/v1
kind: VolumeSnapshotLocation
metadata:
name: zfspv-full
namespace: velero
spec:
provider: openebs.io/zfspv-blockstore
config:
bucket: velero
prefix: zfs
namespace: openebs # this is the namespace where ZFS-LocalPV creates all the CRs, passed as OPENEBS_NAMESPACE env in the ZFS-LocalPV deployment
provider: aws
region: minio
s3ForcePathStyle: "true"
s3Url: http://minio.velero.svc:9000Update the above VolumeSnapshotLocation with namespace and other fields accordingly. Verify the volumesnapshot location:
kubectl get volumesnapshotlocations.velero.io -n velero
Now, we can create a backup schedule using the above VolumeSnapshotLocation and the ZFS-LocalPV plugin will take the full backup of the resources periodically. For example, to take the full backup at every 5 min, we can create the below schedule :
velero create schedule schd --schedule="*/5 * * * *" --snapshot-volumes --include-namespaces=<backup-namespace1>,<backup-namespace2> --volume-snapshot-locations=zfspv-full --storage-location=default
The velero will start taking the backup at every 5 minute of the namespaces mentioned in --include-namespaces.
We can check the backup status using velero backup get command:
$ velero backup get
NAME STATUS CREATED EXPIRES STORAGE LOCATION SELECTOR
schd-20201012122706 InProgress 2020-10-12 17:57:06 +0530 IST 29d default <none>
The scheduled backup will have <schedule name>-<timestamp> format. Once Status is Completed, the backup has been taken successfully and then velero will take the next backup after 5 min and periodically keep doing that.
Incremental backup works for scheduled backup only. We can create the VolumeSnapshotLocation as below to create the incremental backup schedule :-
apiVersion: velero.io/v1
kind: VolumeSnapshotLocation
metadata:
name: zfspv-incr
namespace: velero
spec:
provider: openebs.io/zfspv-blockstore
config:
bucket: velero
prefix: zfs
incrBackupCount: "3" # number of incremental backups we want to have
namespace: openebs # this is the namespace where ZFS-LocalPV creates all the CRs, passed as OPENEBS_NAMESPACE env in the ZFS-LocalPV deployment
provider: aws
region: minio
s3ForcePathStyle: "true"
s3Url: http://minio.velero.svc:9000Update the above VolumeSnapshotLocation with namespace and other fields accordingly. Verify the volumesnapshot location:
kubectl get volumesnapshotlocations.velero.io -n velero
If we have created a backup schedule using the above VolumeSnapshotLocation, the ZFS-LocalPV plugin will start taking the incremental backups. Here, we have to provide incrBackupCount parameter which indicates that how many incremental backups we should keep before taking the next full backup. So, in the above case the ZFS-LocalPV plugin will create full backup first and then it will create three incremental backups and after that it will again create a full backup followed by three incremental backups and so on.
For Restore, we need to have the full backup and all the in between the incremental backups available. All the incremental backups are linked to its previous backup, so this link should not be broken otherwise restore will fail.
One thing to note here is incrBackupCount parameter defines how many incremental backups we want, it does not include the first full backup. While doing the restore, we just need to give the backup name which we want to restore. The plugin is capable of identifying the incremental backup group and will restore from the full backup and keep restoring the incremental backup till the backup name provided in the restore command.
Now we can create a backup schedule using the above VolumeSnapshotLocation and the ZFS-LocalPV plugin will take care of taking the backup of the resources periodically. For example, to take the incremental backup at every 5 min, we can create the below schedule :
velero create schedule schd --schedule="*/5 * * * *" --snapshot-volumes --include-namespaces=<backup-namespace1>,<backup-namespace2> --volume-snapshot-locations=zfspv-incr --storage-location=default --ttl 60m
Velero natively does not support the incremental backup, so while taking the incremental backup we have to set the appropriate ttl for the backups so that we have full incremental backup group available for restore. For example, in the above case we creating a schedule to take the backup at every 5 min and VolumeSnapshotLocation says we should keep 3 incremental backups then ttl should be set to 5 min * (3 incr + 1 full) = 20 min or more. So that the full backup and all the incremental backups are available for the restore. If we don't set the ttl correctly and full backup gets deleted, we won't be able use that backup, so we should make sure that correct ttl is set for the incremental backups schedule.
We can check the backup status using velero backup get command:
$ velero backup get
NAME STATUS CREATED EXPIRES STORAGE LOCATION SELECTOR
schd-20201012134510 Completed 2020-10-12 19:15:10 +0530 IST 29d default <none>
schd-20201012134010 Completed 2020-10-12 19:10:10 +0530 IST 29d default <none>
schd-20201012133510 Completed 2020-10-12 19:05:10 +0530 IST 29d default <none>
schd-20201012133010 Completed 2020-10-12 19:00:10 +0530 IST 29d default <none>
schd-20201012132516 Completed 2020-10-12 18:55:18 +0530 IST 29d default <none>
schd-20201012132115 Completed 2020-10-12 18:51:15 +0530 IST 29d default <none>
Since we have used incrBackupCount as 3 in the volume snapshot location and created the backup. So first backup will be full backup and next 3 backup will be incremental
schd-20201012134510 <============== incr backup, 6th backup
schd-20201012134010 <============== full backup, 5th backup
schd-20201012133510 <============== incr backup, 4th backup
schd-20201012133010 <============== incr backup, 3rd backup
schd-20201012132516 <============== incr backup, 2nd backup
schd-20201012132115 <============== full backup, 1st backup
We do not need to know which is the full backup or incremental backup. We can pick any backup in the list and the plugin will find the corresponding full backup and start the restore from there to all the way upto the backup name provided in the restore command. For example, if we want to restore schd-20201012133010, the plugin will restore in the below order
1. schd-20201012132115 <============== 1st restore
2. schd-20201012132516 <============== 2nd restore
3. schd-20201012133010 <============== 3rd restore
It will stop at 3rd as we want to restore till schd-20201012133010. For us, it will be like we have restored the backup schd-20201012132115 and we don't need to bother about incremenal or full backup.
Suppose we want to restore schd-20201012134010(5th backup), the plugin will restore schd-20201012134010 only as it is full backup and we want to restore till that point only.
We can restore the backup using below command, we can provide the namespace mapping if we want to restore in different namespace. If namespace mapping is not provided, then it will restore in the source namespace in which the backup was present.
velero restore create --from-backup my-backup --restore-volumes=true --namespace-mappings <source-ns>:<dest-ns>
Now we can check the restore status:
$ velero restore get
NAME BACKUP STATUS WARNINGS ERRORS CREATED SELECTOR
my-backup-20200914211331 my-backup InProgress 0 0 2020-09-14 21:13:31 +0530 IST <none>
Once the Status is Completed we can check the pods in the destination namespace and verify that everything is up and running. We can also verify the data has been restored.
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Once VolumeSnapshotLocation has been created, we should never modify it, we should always create a new VolumeSnapshotLocation and use that. If we want to modify it, we should cleanup old backups/schedule first and then modify it and then create the backup/schedule. Also we should not switch the volumesnapshot location for the given scheduled backup, we should always create a new schedule if backups for the old schedule is present.
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For the incremental backup, the higher the value of
incrBackupCountthe more time it will take to restore the volumes. So, we should not have very high number of incremental backup.
We can delete the velero installation by using this command
$ kubectl delete namespace/velero clusterrolebinding/velero
$ kubectl delete crds -l component=velero
Check the velero doc to find all the supported commands and options for the backup and restore.