How to backup vms and vm snapshots with velero

This guide provides instructions on how to backup virtual machines and snapshots of the virtualmachines of kubevirt with velero.
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prerequisites

  • a running cluster
  • rook-ceph as storage provider
  • a s3 storage ( in this case minio)
  • a kubevirt vm running in the cluster

in this example minio is used.

step 1: configure velero

veleroValues:
 namespace: "velero"
 accessKeyId: "minio"
 secretAccessKey: "minio123"
 backupLocationConfig:
   s3Url: "http://10.2.10.110:30090" # nodeport of minio

in the kubeopsctl.yaml:

velero: true

after that you can execute:

kubeopsctl apply -f kubeopsctl.yaml

step 2: check the s3 storage bucket for velero

the bucket for velero ( default velero ) in the s3 storage should be accessible for velero, so check if you have correct rights for writing into the bucket. so in this example we set the bucket to public:

Velero Bucket

step 3: create backup of namespace

velero backup get
velero backup create kubeops1 --include-namespaces <Namespace of kubevirt vm>

the name backup name must be unique.

then you can check with

velero backup get
velero backup describe kubeops1
velero backup logs kubeops1

after that, you can restore

velero restore get
velero restore create kubeops1 --from-backup kubeops1

the restore name must be unique. you can check the restores with

velero restore get
velero restore create kubeops1 --from-backup kubeops1