Hi Team,
I've deployed a 3-node Harvester cluster ...
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millions-afternoon-34677
09/04/2025, 12:45 PMHi Team,
I've deployed a 3-node Harvester cluster on my local server. I’d like to know if there’s a recommended method to take a snapshot or backup of the node servers, so that I can restore the server data easily in case I need to redeploy Orion on the same servers.
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bland-article-62755
09/04/2025, 2:02 PMThey're not really meant for backup/snapshots like VMs are.
bland-article-62755
09/04/2025, 2:02 PMThe basic thing is that you have an etcd backup, and all of your VMs backedup to an external source (s3 or nfs)
bland-article-62755
09/04/2025, 2:03 PMI don't know what Orion is.
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witty-jelly-95845
09/04/2025, 3:33 PMthe only way i can think of doing this is shut all 3 nodes down then dd each disk. if you need to restore you'd need to dd each disk's image back to the respective server.
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thousands-advantage-10804
09/04/2025, 3:35 PMharvester is meant for bare metal. Running it in as a VM is not recommended.
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bland-article-62755
09/04/2025, 3:41 PMAnd if you have a single host, there's no real benefit to running 3 nodes vs 1
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thousands-advantage-10804
09/04/2025, 3:42 PMthanks I was going to add that too!