Backup and Restore of Kubernetes Stateful Application Data with CSI Volume Snapshots

Zhimin Wen
ITNEXT
Published in
7 min readJan 18, 2021

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With the GA release of volume snapshots, the CSI volume snapshot for stateful application data backup and restore is more mature. This paper explores how we can use the standard Kubernetes snapshot resources to backup and restore the data located on the PV.

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