This recipe showed you how to create disaster recovery backups, restore your application and its data back from an S3 target, and how to create scheduled backups on Kubernetes.

In the Backing up an application recipe, in Step 2, we created a pod that uses OpenEBS as a storage vendor. In this case, Kasten uses a generic backup method that requires a sidecar to your application that can mount the application data volume. The following is an example that you can add to your pods and deployment when using non-standard storage options:

- name: kanister-sidecar
  image: kanisterio/kanister-tools:0.20.0
  command: ["bash", "-c"]
  args:
  - "tail -f /dev/null"
  volumeMounts:
  - name: data
    mountPath: /data