Setting up the backup - EcoSys - 3.0 - Installation & Upgrade - Hexagon

The install-velero.sh script will configure velero into the existing cluster and create a backup Azure Resource Group and Azure Storage Account to store the Velero backups.
To setup the backup.

1. Go to the installer/aks directory

2. Edit the env.sh file and customize the Velero settings
   

   Setting	Description
   VELERO_BACKUP_RESOURCE_GROUP	The resource group used to store velero backups. If this does not exist, it will be created. This should be a different resource group than the cluster resource group to provide redundancy. Default = $RESOURCE_GROUP-backup
   VELERO_BLOB_CONTAINER	The name of the Storage Account Container that will be used to store backups. Default = $CLUSTER_NAME-backup
   VELERO_SCHEDULE_CRON_EXPR	The CRON Expression used to schedule backups. Default = 0 7 * * * This is daily at 7 AM
   VELERO_BACKUP_RETENTION	The # of hours the backup will be saved by Velero. Default = 720h0m0s

3. Install Velero into the cluster by running ‘./install-velero.sh’

4. When the script completes, the following message is displayed.

   
   

5. Run the following command to ensure that Velero pod is started, run ‘kubectl get pods -n velero’

   
   

6. The installation of Velero also creates an initial backup. To see all backups, run ‘velero backup get’. This will list all backups, their statuses, and retention policies.

7. Additional backups will be taken based on the ‘VELERO_SCHEDULE_CRON_EXPR’. To create a backup manually, run ‘velero backup create <name>’