Create etcd backup

This SOP should be followed in the following scenarios:

• When the need exists to create an etcd backup.
• When shutting a cluster down gracefully.

Steps

1. Connect to a master node

oc debug node/<node_name>

1. Chroot to the /host directory on the containers filesystem

sh-4.2# chroot /host

1. Run the cluster-backup.sh script and pass in the location to save the backup to

sh-4.4# /usr/local/bin/cluster-backup.sh /home/core/assets/backup

1. Chown the backup files to be owned by user core and group core

chown -R core:core /home/core/assets/backup

1. From the admin machine, see inventory group: ocp-ci-management, become the Openshift service account, see the inventory hostvars for the host identified in the previous step and note the ocp_service_account variable.

ssh <host>
sudo su - <ocp_service_account>

1. Copy the files down to the admin machine.

scp -i <ssh_key> core@<node_name>:/home/core/assets/backup/* ocp_backups/

Resources

• [1] Creating an etcd backup