# 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>
```
2. Chroot to the /host directory on the containers filesystem
```
sh-4.2# chroot /host
```
3. 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
```
4. Chown the backup files to be owned by user `core` and group `core`
```
chown -R core:core /home/core/assets/backup
```
5. 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>
```
6. 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](https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.5/backup_and_restore/backing-up-etcd.html#backing-up-etcd-data_backup-etcd)