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Data Protection for Managed Services

Data Protection Working Group 2021/06/16

Tom Manville

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Volume Backups

Approach 1: CSI

  • CSI Snap
  • CSI Restore
  • Extract data from volume

Approach 2: Provider

  • Provider Snapshot
  • Extract data from provider API

Approach 3: Snaps Only

  • CSI Snapshot (separate failure domain)

Approach 4: Snapshots w/ provider calls

  • Provider/CSI Snapshot
  • Copy snapshot via Provider API

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Data Service: Provider Snapshots

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_CreateDBSnapshot.html

https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/rds.html#RDS.Client.create_db_snapshot

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Data Service: Logical Snapshots

pg_dump -U username -W -F t database_name > backup.tar

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Managed Service Backups

Approach 1: Logical

  • Use service specific tool, e.g. pgdump

Approach 2: Provider

  • Provider snapshot (RDS)
  • Provider restore
  • Logical backup from temporary

Approach 3: Cloud Snaps

  • Provider snapshot (RDS)
  • Copy snapshot via Provider API