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Joseph D. Marhee
Joseph D. Marhee

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Rancher Backups with NFS-backed PersistentVolume

Prerequisites

An external NFS provisioner is required to use an NFS mount as a PersistentVolume backing. This example uses the nfs-subdir-external-provisioner which will create the NFS storage class, nfs-client.

It should be installed with the reclaim policy set to Retain, to ensure the backup is not lost when a volume is deleted.

helm install nfs-subdir-external-provisioner nfs-subdir-external-provisioner/nfs-subdir-external-provisioner     --set nfs.server=192.168.0.11     --set nfs.path=/var/nfs/general --set nfs.reclaimPolicy=Retain --set “nfs.mountOptions={}
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Configuring the Backup Operator

In your local cluster in Rancher, select the Rancher Backup application from the App catalog. Upon beginning the installation, you will select “Use an existing StorageClass”:

Radio button offering option of existing storage class as backup target

And select the newly installed nfs-client StorageClass and a size for the backup volume:

dropdown with storageclass name of nfs-client

Upon completing installation, you can verify the status of the PV as Bound:

$ kubectl get pv
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kubectl output of persistentvolume status

The Reclaim Policy, Access Mode, and Capacity will be visible in the output of this command as well.

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