GKE Backup & Disaster Recovery Protects stateful GKE workloads using Backup for GKE. CLI Reference

Enable GKE Backup addon (Slow cluster-level update)

gcloud container clusters update < CLUSTER_NAME

--enable-gke-backup --region < REGION

--quiet

Create Backup Plan

gcloud container backup-restore backup-plans create < PLAN_NAME

\ --cluster = < CLUSTER_NAME

--location

< REGION

\ --retention-days = < DAYS

--cron-schedule

"" --all-namespaces --quiet

Trigger Manual Backup

gcloud container backup-restore backups create < BACKUP_NAME

\ --backup-plan = < PLAN_NAME

--location

< REGION

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