Annotations

Users can influence some aspects of K8up by defining annotations on certain resources.

These annotations can have different names in your cluster, depending on how K8up is configured. See Operator Configuration reference
Annotation Description Accepted Values Applicable Resources Configuration Option

k8up.io/backup

If defined, this influences whether this pod shall be backed up (true) or not (false)

Either 'true' or 'false'

Pod, PersistentVolumeClaim

BACKUP_ANNOTATION

k8up.io/backupcommand

If defined, this command is invoked in the context of this Pod on the beginning of a backup.

A string that represents a command (and its arguments) to execute, e.g. mysqldump -uroot -psecure --all-databases. See Application Aware Backups for more information and an example.

Pod

BACKUP_BACKUPCOMMANDANNOTATION

k8up.io/file-extension

The output of the k8up.syn.tool/backupcommand annotation is written to a file in order for it to be backed up. This annotation defines the file extension of that string.

A string which is valid file-extension on the source system, e.g. .sql.

Pod

BACKUP_FILEEXTENSIONANNOTATION