Application Aware Backups With Kanister And Kopia

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Demonstrates an actual application‑aware backup pipeline for PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using Blueprint + ActionSet workflow (Kanister CRs: Blueprint, ActionSet, Profile) that runs containerized phases, pushes a pg_dump artifact to an S3 bucket and restores it intact (two rows verified). Replaces Restic with Kopia repository server as an intermediary for encrypted, deduplicated object uploads; repository setup is currently manual. Shows which Kanister functions were used (kubetask, kubexec, push/pull) and that the end‑to‑end backup and restore work.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:08About me
3. 0:45Flavours of Data Management
4. 2:37Challenge - Complex workflows
5. 19:45Kanister Functions
6. 23:56Execution Workflow with Kopia
7. 24:32Roadmap/New Features
8. 25:22Resources

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