The operator makes it more flexible in terms of your options for restore, ie restoring rancher into a completely new cluster. Transplanting etcd between different clusters is not really viable. The backup operator is still just backing up custom resources that effectively make up your Rancher config.
agreeable-oil-87482
09/01/2022, 7:58 AM
It also helps in environments you don't have full control over etcd, such as hosted providers like EKS, AKS, GKE. It's also used as a migration tool to relocate Rancher if required.