How to backup Grafana in Kubernetes system

Grafana Configuration
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Hi

I am new to Grafana and also K8S. I just deployed Grafana using Helm into my Rancher K8S system and I want to know how to backup it.

I tried to follow this document but still confused because I am not sure where $WORKING_DIR or customs.ini are.

Please help.

Thank you very much.
KL

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It depends. Let’s assume you are using volume for Grafana DB, so just snapshot that volume (it’s advance k8 topic):

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Thank you for your answer. I also want to do that as it seems like the easiest way to backup.
However, I have got this issue ‘/var/lib/grafana/plugins’: permission denied’ when I enable persistent volume using Helm as instructed on this link
Deploy Grafana using Helm Charts | Grafana documentation

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It depends on your personal preference - there is no the best solution. I hate K8S volumes, so I use SaaS DB (e.g. AWS RDS Aurora) with automated daily snapshots with 30d retention period + manual snapshot before each major upgrade, I have restore exercise once per year. This is my “the easiest way”.

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  1. is your grafana backend sqlite?
  2. how many dashboards do you have?
  3. do you have any other fancy stuff going on in your grafana other than dashboards?
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@yosiasz

  1. I deployed it through helm without editing anything. So, I think it is on sqllite.
  2. Since I just started with it, I have developed 2 dashboards.
  3. No, my plan was to use it for visualizing time series data from machines in the factory and alert when some anomalies happen such as values exceeding thresholds.
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highly recommend you also look at the provisioning of dashboards route