Postgresql: Dump and restore a database on kubernetes
Dumping
Assuming we are working with a postgresql statefulset, our namespace is named miniflux
and our master pod is named db-postgresql-0
, trying to dump a database named miniflux
:
export POSTGRES_PASSWORD=$(kubectl get secret --namespace miniflux db-postgresql \ -o jsonpath="{.data.postgresql-password}" | base64 --decode) kubectl run db-postgresql-client --rm --tty -i --restart='Never' --namespace miniflux \ --image docker.io/bitnami/postgresql:11.8.0-debian-10-r19 --env="PGPASSWORD=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD" \ --command -- pg_dump --host db-postgresql -U postgres -d miniflux> miniflux.sql-2020062501
Restoring
Assuming we are working with a postgresql statefulset, our namespace is named miniflux
and our master pod is named db-postgresql-0
, trying to restore a database named miniflux
:
kubectl -n miniflux cp miniflux.sql-2020062501 db-postgresql-0:/tmp/miniflux.sql kubectl -n miniflux exec -ti db-postgresql-0 -- psql -U postgres -d miniflux miniflux=# \i /tmp/miniflux.sql kubectl -n miniflux exec -ti db-postgresql-0 -- rm /tmp/miniflux.sql