BackupsNotCreated #

Meaning #

Restic Robot couldn’t create data backups.

Impact #

Data consistency can be at risk.

Diagnosis #

Check logs of restic-robot application.

Mitigation #

Application logs should point to what needs to be done. In most cases it is because restic respoitory is locked and needs to be unlocked.

How to unlock restic repository #

0. Have restic binary installed
1. Import environment variables from restic-repository secret associated with the failing job/deployment.

export secret="restic-repository"
export $(kubectl get secret "$secret" -ojson | jq -r ".data | to_entries|map(\"\(.key)=\(.value|tostring|@base64d)\")|.[]")

2. Execute restic unlock
3. Unset environment variables.

export secret="restic-repository"
unset $(kubectl get secret "${secret}" -ojson | jq -r ".data | to_entries|map(\"\(.key)\")|.[]")