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Rancher Deep Dive
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Rancher Deep Dive

by Matthew Mattox
July 2022
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
8h 58m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9: Cluster Configuration Backup and Recovery

The previous chapters covered importing externally managed clusters into Rancher. This chapter will cover managing RKE1 and RKE2 clusters in Rancher when it comes to backup and recovery of the cluster. This includes some of the best practices for setting up your backups. Then, we'll walk through an etcd restore, finally covering the limitations of an etcd backup.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • What is an etcd backup?
  • Why do I need to back up my etcd?
  • How does an etcd backup work?
  • How does an etcd restore work?
  • When do you need an etcd restore?
  • What does an etcd backup not protect?
  • How do you configure etcd backups?
  • How do you take an etcd backup?
  • How do you ...
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ISBN: 9781803246093