Question - not issue - full system backup

[iPromKnight]

Hi there

This looks interesting Atm i'm running chronic, and resticprofile BUt considering to switch over to this, as seems a much more complete solution

Is it possible to achieve a full system backup incremental every 24 hours with this that can be installed from a live-cd instance in disaster recovery scenarios?

This is RockyLinux (CentOS) running bare metal, with k3s running on it single node, so i'm guessing i'll need to perform pre-backup shutdown of the cluster with k3s-stop, and post backup restart, plus publish to a ntfy channel

[deajan]

Hi,

NPBackup is based on restic, so it comes with it's advantages and disadvantages. As restic, a full system backup only does files, and you will have to make some special moves the get the database backups right. Ideally you should run a mysqldump (or whatever database dump) inside the containers and have npbackup read from stdin. Backing up the containers (unless they're private) is generally not required, and you could just backup the configuration files and data dirs on top of the database exports.

Of course, you can also stop your k3s cluster and backup all files, but restoring them to another system would be quite time consuming and it's generally better to create new container instances and restore only data.

NPBackup can run from any live cd, it doesn't need any dependencies.

I can elaborate on the container backups if needed.

[deajan]

Closing for lack of activity. Feel free to repoen.