Kubernetes Backup and Restore

Foreword

This document is prepared as administrator's guide of MediaWiki implementation on kubernetes to perform backup and restore. Backup and restore will cover for both database stored in mySQL and image media stored in MediaWiki file system.

What you need to perform the task is the console access to worker node of kubernetes' deployment.

Acessing your cluster

Use your credentials to access the worker node of the kubernetes deployment. All the data of the deployment is stored on ~\mount and all underneath directory. Please refer the below diagram.

~\mount
 |
 |- backup
    |- images
    |- mariadb
 |- restore
    |- images
    |- mariadb
 |- images
 |- mariadb

Please noted that backup files are stored in ~\mount\backup\, and files as the result of the backup process will be stored in respective folder.