Get in the Cluster, Benji!
Here we introduce benji [1], a backup system based on backy2. It lets us
backup Ceph RBD objects from Rook into Wasabi, our offsite S3-compatible
storage provider.
Benji runs as a k8s CronJob, every hour at 42 minutes. It does the
following:
- runs benji-pvc-backup, which iterates over all PVCs in k8s, and backs
up their respective PVs to Wasabi
- runs benji enforce, marking backups outside our backup policy [2] as
to be deleted
- runs benji cleanup, to remove unneeded backups
- runs a custom script to backup benji's sqlite3 database into wasabi
(unencrypted, but we're fine with that - as the metadata only contains
image/pool names, thus Ceph PV and pool names)
[1] - https://benji-backup.me/index.html
[2] - latest3,hours48,days7,months12, which means the latest 3 backups,
then one backup for the next 48 hours, then one backup for the next
7 days, then one backup for the next 12 months, for a total of 65
backups (deduplicated, of course)
We also drive-by update some docs (make them mmore separated into
user/admin docs).
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