Activate --default-volumes-to-restic without reinstalling

[Panplumousse]

Describe the problem/challenge you have
Is not really a problem is a question about velero installation

Describe the solution you'd like
I am using velero / restic in production and would like to change the way volumes are backed up.

I would like to activate the option: --default-volumes-to-restic
without reinstalling velero, maybe by modifying the velero "deploy".

Could you tell me how can imake this modification

thank you in advance

• Velero 1.3.2

[ashish-amarnath]

@Panplumousse Thanks for asking for this feature.
Have you considered using the --default-volumes-to-restic flag on the velero backup create command to use this feature on a per backup basis instead of enabling it for all the backups?
You can find out more about this on our docs website at https://velero.io/docs/main/restic/ under the "Using the opt-out approach" section

[Panplumousse]

Hello

yes i have check that but i use schedule for backup and i dont know where put this flag option in schedule yaml

[ashish-amarnath]

Wrt schedules, the --default-volumes-to-restic flag was not getting passed from the velero schedule create command to the BackupSpec I have a PR #2776 that should fix that for you.

[nrb]

To answer the question about modifying the velero deployment, you can use kubectl edit or kubectl patch to modify the Velero deployment's arguments.

velero install currently does not modify deployed Kubernetes objects, and will eventually be deprecated in favor of a new command (velero config) that can.

[Panplumousse]

@ashish-amarnath
thx for feed back

@nrb
Thx for you answer , but where in deployement i have to put information and witch information , for use --default-volumes-to-restic

thx a lot

[ashish-amarnath]

@Panplumousse the --default-volumes-to-restic is a command-line flag to the velero container

$ kubectl -n velero get deploy velero -ojson | jq .spec.template.spec.containers[0].args
[
  "server",
  "--features=",
  "--default-volumes-to-restic=true"
]

$ kubectl -n velero get deploy velero -ojson | jq .spec.template.spec.containers[0].args[2]
"--default-volumes-to-restic=true"

[Panplumousse]

@ashish-amarnath thx for your feed back

from which version of velero this functionality is present I am currently in 1.3.2
and when i try to modify deploy i receive this error :

Error: unknown flag: --default-volumes-to-restic
Usage:
velero server [flags] ....

thx a lot

[ashish-amarnath]

This feature isn’t available in a release yet. It will be available from the upcoming 1.5 release eta end of aug 2020

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[Panplumousse]

@ashish-amarnath ok thx a lot

[ashish-amarnath]

@Panplumousse I don't think there is any further action item on this PR. I'll close this out. Feel free to reach out if you have more questions.