Are this the correct commands to backup the ETCD DB: ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl help ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints https://127.0.0.1:2379 --cacert=/etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/ca.crt --cert=/etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/server.crt --key=/etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/server.key snapshot save /tmp/snapshot-pre-b…

Above steps looks good, are you facing any issue?

First, you need to install etcd-client: sudo apt install etcd-client

can we restore etcd using pem format cert and keys? if so, is it possible only from master node? ETCD backup is as below: ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints=https://[127.0.0.1]:2379 --cacert=/etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/ca.crt –name=master –cert=/etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/server.crt --key=/etc/kubernet…

Can anyone post the commands to take backup and restore HA ETCD cluster. and also please let me knoe, after restore ,we need reboot any kubeadm tools ?

#get certs cat /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml | grep etcd #take a snapshot ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl snapshot save /tmp/etcd-backup.db –cacert /etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/ca.crt –cert /etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/server.crt –key /etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/server.key #restore a snapshot …

Back Up the etcd Data From the terminal, log in to the etcd server: ssh etcd1 Back up the etcd data: ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl snapshot save /home/cloud_user/etcd_backup.db –endpoints= https://etcd1:2379 –cacert=/home/cloud_user/etcd-certs/etcd-ca.pem –cert=/home/cloud_user/etcd-certs/etcd-serv…

Backup: ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints=https://[127.0.0.1]:2379 --cacert=/etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/ca.crt --cert=/etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/server.crt --key=/etc/kubernetes/pki/etcd/server.key snapshot save /opt/snapshot-pre-boot.db To view status ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints=https://[127.0.…

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