These tips can help you troubleshoot known issues. If they don't help, you can file an issue, or talk to us on the #ark-dr channel on the Kubernetes Slack server.
Some general commands for troubleshooting that may be helpful:
ark backup describe <backupName>
- describe the details of a backupark backup logs <backupName>
- fetch the logs for this specific backup. Useful for viewing failures and warnings, including resources that could not be backed up.ark restore describe <restoreName>
- describe the details of a restoreark restore logs <restoreName>
- fetch the logs for this specific restore. Useful for viewing failures and warnings, including resources that could not be restored.kubectl logs deployment/ark -n heptio-ark
- fetch the logs of the Ark server pod. This provides the output of the Ark server processes.
You can increase the verbosity of the Ark server by editing your Ark deployment to look like this:
kubectl edit deployment/ark -n heptio-ark
...
containers:
- name: ark
image: gcr.io/heptio-images/ark:latest
command:
- /ark
args:
- server
- --log-level # Add this line
- debug # Add this line
...