Backups

Backups are enabled by default. The Redis instance will be backed up daily at a randomly chosen time between 22:00 and 4:00.

You can specify a different backup time and interval using the following backup configuration:

apiVersion: vshn.appcat.vshn.io/v1
kind: VSHNRedis
metadata:
  name: redis-app1-prod
  namespace: <your-namespace>
spec:
  parameters:
    ...
    backup:
      schedule: 0 22 * * * (1)
    ...

1	The schedules for your backups.

Disable Backups

To disable backups, set the backup.enabled field to false:

apiVersion: vshn.appcat.vshn.io/v1
kind: VSHNRedis
metadata:
  name: redis-app1-prod
  namespace: <your-namespace>
spec:
  parameters:
    ...
    backup:
      enabled: false
    ...

If backups were previously enabled, existing backups will be retained until their retention period expires.

Disabling backups is meant for test instances only. It is not recommended to disable backups for production instances.

Listing Backups

Get an overview of all backups performed of your database instance:

$ kubectl -n <your-namespace> get vshnredisbackups
BACKUP ID   DATABASE INSTANCE   BACKUP TIME
6678cecd    redis-app1-prod     2023-06-26T08:11:02Z
6df7d405    redis-app1-prod     2023-06-26T07:30:05Z
4bb23139    redis-app2-prod     2023-06-26T12:29:05Z
e5164ada    redis-app2-prod     2023-06-26T12:33:02Z

The list will show all backups from all instances in this namespace. In the example above there are two database instances with two backups each.

Backup Details

Learn more about a chosen backup:

$ kubectl -n <your-namespace> get vshnredisbackups 6678cecd -oyaml
apiVersion: api.appcat.vshn.io/v1
kind: VSHNRedisBackup
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2023-06-26T08:11:03Z"
  generation: 1
  name: 6678cecd (1)
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "14581"
  uid: ee105483-2a15-476b-b2d1-561526c74e25
status:
  date: "2023-06-26T08:11:02Z" (2)
  id: 6678cecd3a006ff04111a3bd992c2a22183f7b69b2a8632dc365843341927c4a (3)
  instance: redis-app1-prod (4)

1	Short ID of the backup
2	The time when the backup finished
3	Full ID of the backup, this is used for internal restore operations
4	Name of the instance this backup belongs to