Veeam Kasten Disaster Recovery
As Veeam Kasten is a stateful application running on the cluster, it must be responsible for backing up its own data to enable recovery in the event of disaster - this is enabled by the Veeam Kasten Disaster Recovery (KDR) policy. In particular, KDR provides the ability to recover the Veeam Kasten platform from a variety of disasters, such as the unintended deletion of Veeam Kasten or its restore points, the failure of the underlying storage used by Veeam Kasten, or even the accidental destruction of the Kubernetes cluster on which Veeam Kasten is deployed.
Configuring Veeam Kasten Disaster Recovery Mode
The KDR mode specifies how internal Veeam Kasten resources are protected. The mode can be set either before or after enabling the KDR policy. Changes to the KDR mode only apply to future KDR policy runs.
All installations default to Legacy DR mode. Quick DR mode is available and recommended for installations using snapshot-capable storage.
Quick DR mode should only be enabled if the storage provisioner used for Veeam Kasten PVCs supports both the creation of snapshots and the ability to restore the existing volume from a snapshot.
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To enable Quick DR mode, install or upgrade Veeam Kasten
with the
--set kastenDisasterRecovery.quickMode.enabled=true
Helm value. -
To enable Legacy DR mode, install or upgrade Veeam Kasten
with the
--set kastenDisasterRecovery.quickMode.enabled=false
Helm value.