Backup Operators

Backup operators are a collection of charms that provide a highly integrated, low-operations backup solution for charms running in machine environments.

Backup operators deliver file-level backups using the Bacula system and leverage the backup relation to automatically define what and how to back up for all supported backup target charms in the Juju ecosystem. This significantly reduces the operational cost of setting up backups in complex systems.

For Site Reliability Engineers, backup operators offer a turnkey, out-of-the-box backup solution.

In this documentation

How this documentation is organized

This documentation uses the Diátaxis documentation structure.

  • The Tutorial takes you step-by-step through a basic deployment of backup charms.

  • The How-to guides assume you have basic familiarity with the backup charms. Learn more about setting up, using, maintaining, and contributing to this project.

  • Reference provides a guide to actions, configurations, relations, charm architecture, and other technical details.

  • Explanation provides additional context and deeper understanding of key concepts, such as security.

Contributing to this documentation

Documentation is an important part of this project, and we take the same open-source approach to the documentation as the code. As such, we welcome community contributions, suggestions, and constructive feedback on our documentation. See How to contribute for more information.

If there’s a particular area of documentation that you’d like to see that’s missing, please file a bug.

Project and community

The backup operators are a member of the Ubuntu family. It’s an open-source project that warmly welcomes community projects, contributions, suggestions, fixes, and constructive feedback.

Thinking about using the backup operators for your next project? Get in touch!