Using Velero to back up workloads

Velero supports running a "one-time" backup with a single command or on a recurring schedule. Whether you chose to run a single backup or a recurring backup, you can back up all objects or only certain objects using include and exclude flags.

Running a one-time cluster backup

To create an initial backup, you can run a single Velero command that will back up all of the namespaces in the cluster.

Executing a backup without any flags to include or exclude any cluster objects will back up every namespace and all of the objects in the namespace.

To create a one-time backup, execute the velero command with the backup create <backup name> option. In our example, we have named the backup initial-backup:

velero backup create initial-backup

The only confirmation you will receive from this is that the backup request was submitted:

Backup request "initial-backup" submitted successfully.
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