Trigger Policy Automatically from Helm hook

Hi @Matteo.Gazzadi 

I believe you need our “RunAction” API call which is associated with running a policy manually.  This is similar to hitting “Run Once” in the UI.

https://docs.kasten.io/latest/api/actions.html#runaction

It looks something like this which you can put into your pre-hook (just change the name of your policy from ‘postgresql-backup’ to something else:

kind: RunAction
apiVersion: actions.kio.kasten.io/v1alpha1
metadata:
  name: run-once
spec:
  subject:
    apiVersion: config.kio.kasten.io/v1alpha1
    kind: Policy
    name: postgresql-backup
    namespace: kasten-io

If you wanted to run a manual backup not associated with a Policy, you’d use the similar API “BackupAction”: https://docs.kasten.io/latest/api/actions.html#backupaction

Note: in both cases, because we leverage GFS retention, all manually executed backups are retained forever and do not affect scheduled retention policies.  This does mean you need to make use of our RestorePoint and RestorePointContent “Delete” API: https://docs.kasten.io/latest/api/restorepoints.html to restore storage capacity.  We are looking into some feature enhancement in this area to expire manual backups.

As a workaround, our support engineer @jaiganeshjk wrote a helpful article on cleaning up manual backups using Kubectl: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rSpS74_3jFyV4ipuKn6FblivtglVKvxMFPP_sTBDBSw/edit#heading=h.o6352eqd3nyp

Hope this helps!