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A Restic is a Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinition (CRD). It provides declarative configuration for restic in a Kubernetes native way. You only need to describe the desired backup operations in a Restic object, and the Stash operator will reconfigure the matching workloads to the desired state for you.
As with all other Kubernetes objects, a Restic needs apiVersion, kind, and metadata fields. It also needs a .spec section. Below is an example Restic object.
apiVersion: stash.appscode.com/v1alpha1
kind: Restic
metadata:
name: stash-demo
namespace: default
spec:
selector:
matchLabels:
app: stash-demo
fileGroups:
- path: /source/data
retentionPolicyName: 'keep-last-5'
backend:
local:
mountPath: /safe/data
hostPath:
path: /data/stash-test/restic-repo
storageSecretName: stash-demo
schedule: '@every 1m'
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /source/data
name: source-data
retentionPolicies:
- name: 'keep-last-5'
keepLast: 5
prune: true
The .spec section has following parts:
spec.selector is a required field that specifies a label selector for the Deployments, ReplicaSets, ReplicationControllers, DaemonSets and StatefulSets targeted by this Restic. Selectors are always matched against the labels of Deployments, ReplicaSets, ReplicationControllers, DaemonSets and StatefulSets in the same namespace as Restic object itself. You can create Deployment, etc and its matching Restic is any order. As long as the labels match, Stash operator will add sidecar container to the workload. If multiple Restic objects are matched to a given workload, Stash operator will error out and avoid adding sidecar container.
The default value for spec.type is online. For offline backup you need to specify spec.type=offline. For more details see here.
spec.fileGroups is a required field that specifies one or more directories that are backed up by restic. For each directory, you can specify custom tags and retention policy for snapshots.
spec.fileGroups[].path represents a local directory that backed up by restic.spec.fileGroups[].tags is an optional field. This can be used to apply one or more custom tag to snapshots taken from this path.spec.fileGroups[].retentionPolicyName is an optional field that is used to specify a retention policy defined in spec.retentionPolicies. This defines how old snapshots are forgot by restic. If set, these options directly translate into flags for restic forget command.spec.retentionPolicies defines an array of retention policies for old snapshots. Retention policy options are below.
| Policy | Value | restic forget flag | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
name |
string | Name of retention policy provided by users. This is used in file groups to refer to a policy. | |
keepLast |
integer | –keep-last n | Never delete the n last (most recent) snapshots |
keepHourly |
integer | –keep-hourly n | For the last n hours in which a snapshot was made, keep only the last snapshot for each hour. |
keepDaily |
integer | –keep-daily n | For the last n days which have one or more snapshots, only keep the last one for that day. |
keepWeekly |
integer | –keep-weekly n | For the last n weeks which have one or more snapshots, only keep the last one for that week. |
keepMonthly |
integer | –keep-monthly n | For the last n months which have one or more snapshots, only keep the last one for that month. |
keepYearly |
integer | –keep-yearly n | For the last n years which have one or more snapshots, only keep the last one for that year. |
keepTags |
array | –keep-tag |
Keep all snapshots which have all tags specified by this option (can be specified multiple times). --tag foo,tag bar style tagging is not supported. |
prune |
bool | –prune | If set, actually removes the data that was referenced by the snapshot from the repository. |
dryRun |
bool | –dry-run | Instructs restic to not remove anything but print which snapshots would be removed. |
You can set one or more of these retention policy options together. To learn more, read here.
To learn how to configure various backends for Restic, please visit here.
spec.schedule is a cron expression that indicates how often restic commands are invoked for file groups.
At each tick, restic backup and restic forget commands are run for each of the configured file groups.
spec.paused can be used as enable/disable switch for Restic. The default value is false. To stop restic from taking backup set spec.paused: true. For more details see here.
spec.resources refers to compute resources required by the stash sidecar container. To learn more, visit here.
spec.volumeMounts refers to volumes to be mounted in stash sidecar to get access to fileGroup paths.
Deployment, ReplicaSet and ReplicationController restic repo is created in the sub-directory <WORKLOAD_KIND>/<WORKLOAD_NAME>. For multiple replicas, only one repository is created and sidecar is added to only one pod selected by leader-election.Statefulset restic repository is created in the sub-directory <WORKLOAD_KIND>/<POD_NAME>. For multiple replicas, multiple repositories are created and sidecar is added to all pods.DaemonSet restic repository is created in the sub-directory <WORKLOAD_KIND>/<WORKLOAD_NAME>/<NODE_NAME>. Separate repositories are created for each node and sidecar is added to all pods.Stash allow the users to provide a prefix for the backup repository directory. You can provide the prefix using local.subPath for local bckend and <backend-type>.prefix for other backends in spec.backend field of Restic crd.
If you provide the prefix then the repository will be created in the following directory,
<PREFIX>/<WORKLOAD_KIND>/<WORKLOAD_NAME> for Deployment, ReplicaSet, ReplicationController.<PREFIX>/<WORKLOAD_KIND>/<POD_NAME> for StatefulSets.<PREFIX>/<WORKLOAD_KIND>/<WORKLOAD_NAME>/<NODE_NAME> for DaemonSets.This prefix is particularly helpful when you are using a single bucket to backup your workload in the following scenario,
In these scenarios, Restic crd without a prefix will cause conflict in the repository directory in the bucket. You can overcome it using a different prefix for each workload.
For each workload where a sidecar container is added by Stash operator, the following annotations are added:
restic.appscode.com/last-applied-configuration indicates the configuration of applied Restic CRD.restic.appscode.com/tag indicates the tag of appscode/stash Docker image that was added as a sidecar.The sidecar container watches for changes in the Restic fileGroups, backend and schedule. These changes are automatically applied on the next run of restic commands. If the selector of a Restic CRD is changed, Stash operator will update workload accordingly by adding/removing sidecars as required.
To stop Restic from taking backup, you can do the following things:
Set spec.paused: true in Restic yaml and then update the Restic object. This means:
Delete the Restic CRD. Stash operator will remove the sidecar container from all matching workloads.
Change the labels of a workload. Stash operator will remove the sidecar container from that workload. This way you can selectively stop backup of a Deployment, ReplicaSet etc.
For more details about how to disable and resume Restic see here.