KUBERNETES (K8S): ETCDCTL Command To Validate The Status of ETCD Database Backup

To Validate the status of etcd database that was backed up and make sure you are able to read the stats from snapshot backup, run below ETCDCTL command. Change /backup directory name in below command to directory where you want to backup etcd database.

            sudo ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --write-out=table snapshot status /backup/etcd.db

        Below is sample output of above command.

            sudo ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --write-out=table snapshot status /home/opc/etcd.db

            +----------+----------+------------+------------+

            |   HASH   | REVISION | TOTAL KEYS | TOTAL SIZE |

            +----------+----------+------------+------------+

            | 56414efa |   940057 |       2001 |     7.0 MB |

            +----------+----------+------------+------------+