Backup and Restore

Featureform can be configured to take periodic snapshots of itself that are backed up to your specified cloud storage. In case of an incident, this snapshot can be pulled and reloaded to restore Featureform to a previous state.
Enable Snapshotting
Enable With Helm
Snapshotting is enabled through the helm chart configuration. To enable, you can run:
helm upgrade featureform featureform/featureform [FLAGS] --set backup.enable=true --set backup.schedule=<schedule>
where <schedule> is a valid cron schedule. Example: "0 * * * *" for every hour on the hour.
Backup Location
You'll also need to create a Kubernetes secret to provide access to the cloud storage.
There is an example file located in the Github Repo secret_template.yaml.
You can use this template to choose one of the cloud providers and add credentials for that provider.
Running
kubectl apply -f secret_template.yaml
will create the secret.
Restore Snapshot
Restoring a snapshot will delete all data currently in Featureform and replace it with the data in the snapshot. You can specify to restore from the latest snapshot or restore from a specific snapshot.
Restore From Latest
To restore from latest you can download the Github Repo.
cd backup/restore
Edit the .env-template file with your cloud provider name and credentials, then rename to .env. A specific snapshot can be used by filling in the SNAPSHOT_NAME variable in the .env file.
To restore, run
./restore.sh
and confirm that the cluster being restored is the correct one. Press y to complete the restore.

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