Medusa now supports MinIO as a storage backend for backups

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K8ssandra includes Medusa for performing backups and restores of Cassandra clusters.

Alexander Dejanovski announced earlier this month the addition of the popular k8s-native MinIO to Medusa’s ever-growing list of supported storage backends for archiving Cassandra snapshots to S3-compatible object stores.

Setting up MinIO couldn’t be simpler – it’s really as easy as 1-2-3!

STEP 1 - Add the MinIO repo to your list:

$ helm repo add minio https://helm.min.io/

STEP 2 - Install MinIO, set the creds and create a bucket all in one command:

$ helm install --set accessKey=minio_key,secretKey=minio_secret,defaultBucket.enabled=true,defaultBucket.name=k8ssandra-medusa minio minio/minio -n minio --create-namespace

STEP 3 - Expose access to the UI with port forwarding:

$ kubectl port-forward service/minio 9000 -n minio

And BOOM! :fireworks: You’re now ready to access the MinIO web interface on http://localhost:9000. :muscle:

For the full details, see Alexander’s blog post:

If that’s not enough, watch Alexander walkthrough the process here:
youtube-k8ssandra-walkthrough-alexander

Tell us what you think in the comments below. We’d love to hear from you!

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Can i get detailed documentation for using-k8ssandra-to-backup-and-restore-cassandra-with-minio

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Hi, the docs are up to date here.

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I have gone through your blog for using-k8ssandra-to-backup-and-restore-cassandra-with-minio but I am failing sometimes it shows error of policies or node affinity or pods r not running.I have seen your youtube video i followed the steps you use but then also it is not working thats why I am requesting you to help me by providing the detailed docs for using-k8ssandra-to-backup-and-restore-cassandra-with-minio step by step. Hoping you would help me.
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These blog posts and videos are outdated and showcase K8ssandra v1 which we don’t support anymore. I encourage you to start using k8ssandra-operator instead and go through the installation steps here.
If you want to read about the differences between K8ssandra v1 and k8ssandra-operator, please read this blog post.