Does medusa support restoring backups on non-K8s clusters using gRPC?

[sandeepnethi]

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Hello,

I have C* cluster running on VM's and it's being backed up using in-house solution. We are planning to migrate this to Medusa but one of the blockers for me to enable medusa is password less ssh because of security reasons.

As I can see medusa has gRPC support to backup and restore but it looks more of a K8s centric. Is this correct? Is it possible to use gRPC or non ssh method to perform restore using medusa? If it's possible can you please point me to some documentation?

Thanks,

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┆Issue Number: MED-122

[adejanovski]

the grpc server only supports backup operations at the moment, not restore ones (in kubernetes we use an init container for this, which will call an equivalent to the medusa restore-node command). Despite that code being under the grpc directory, it's not actually implemented as an operation in the grpc server.

Supporting restores is an interesting feature that would need to be implemented.

[sandeepnethi]

Ok, could you please share some steps or documentation on how to use grpc to take backups if it's already supported through grpc? and not sure if similar commands/steps used in the init container can be used with non-container setup? If so can you please expose that information?

Supporting restores is an interesting feature that would need to be implemented.

Could you please take this as a feature request?

Thanks,