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Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by tobru » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 3:45 PM UTC

Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic
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Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by bryanlarsen » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 5:39 PM UTC

Any advantages over velero? https://heptio.github.io/velero/master/restic.html

Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by glesperance » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 6:20 PM UTC

We've been using k8s-snapshots[1] Very easy to setup and use. Very simple to add snapshots too.

How does this compare?

[1] https://github.com/miracle2k/k8s-snapshots

Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by tobru » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 6:31 PM UTC

bryanlarsen wrote: post #2

Any advantages over velero? https://heptio.github.io/velero/master/restic.html

It's an alternative, in the making since over a year and used in production. It focuses on Restic since the beginning.

Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by bryanlarsen » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 6:34 PM UTC

glesperance wrote: post #3

We've been using k8s-snapshots[1] Very easy to setup and use. Very simple to add snapshots too. How does this compare? [1] https://github.com/miracle2k/k8s-snapshots

That only works on AWS & GCE. A restic based operator will work anywhere.

Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by tobru » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 6:35 PM UTC

glesperance wrote: post #3

We've been using k8s-snapshots[1] Very easy to setup and use. Very simple to add snapshots too. How does this compare? [1] https://github.com/miracle2k/k8s-snapshots

* K8up uses Restic, k8s-snapshots Tarsnap

* K8up doesn't do snapshots but file-based backups supporting any RWX storage and to some extend RWO (still to be improved)

* K8up can do pre-backup tasks like dumping a database to have application consistent backups

* K8up has a great amount of monitoring backed in for providing a good overview via Prometheus if the backups really work

* K8up can send webhooks about backups available to allow integrations into third party control panels. F.e. Lagoon[1] uses it

[1] https://github.com/amazeeio/lagoon

Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by joseph » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 7:20 PM UTC

Cool. I was about to hack a CronJob to take some backups with pg_dump, but I'm going to give this a try.

Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by tamalsaha001 » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 8:20 PM UTC

You can also try Stash https://github.com/stashed/stash . This has been in use since 2017 and always worked with Restic.

Disclaimer: My company, AppsCode is the primary developer behind Stash.

Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by SomaticPirate » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 8:43 PM UTC

bryanlarsen wrote: post #2

Any advantages over velero? https://heptio.github.io/velero/master/restic.html

Its a bit interesting that Velero just merged a proposal about Restic https://github.com/heptio/velero/commit/86408bf8052cf33a5a80... Is this where the k8s backup ideas are going?

Re: Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic

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Post by SomaticPirate » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 8:44 PM UTC

tamalsaha001 wrote: post #8

You can also try Stash https://github.com/stashed/stash . This has been in use since 2017 and always worked with Restic. Disclaimer: My company, AppsCode is the primary developer behind Stash.

How does this compare? It appears to only backup chosen apps, not necessarily a whole cluster?