This guide provides documentation for Wickr Enterprise. If you're using AWS Wickr, see [AWS Wickr Administration Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wickr/latest/adminguide/what-is-wickr.html) or [AWS Wickr User Guide](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wickr/latest/userguide/what-is-wickr.html).

# Backups
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Wickr Enterprise utilizes Velero for Backup purposes. Velero provides the necessary tools for backing up and restoring Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent volumes, whether operating on a cloud provider or on-premises.

**Velero backups with Minio**: Currently Velero backups are only enabled for Minio in Low Resource Mode. 

![Velero installation image.](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/wickr/latest/wickrenterpriseinstall/images/wickr-enterprise-velero.png)


## Installation using Velero documentation
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+ Install the Velero CLI. For more information, see [Installing the Velero CLI](https://docs.replicated.com/enterprise/snapshots-velero-cli-installing).
+ Install Velero on your cluster and configure storage based on your provider:
  + [AWS](https://velero.io/docs/v1.0.0/aws-config/).
  + [GCP](https://velero.io/docs/v1.0.0/gcp-config/).
  + [Azure](https://velero.io/docs/v1.0.0/azure-config/).
  + [Other providers](https://velero.io/docs/v1.10/supported-providers/).

### Limitation
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By default, no volumes are included in the backup. If any pods mount a volume that should be backed up, you must configure the backup with an annotation listing the specific volumes to include in the backup.

For each volume that requires a backup, add the backup.velero.io/backup-volumes annotation. The annotation name is backup.velero.io/backup-volumes and the value is a comma separated list of volumes to include in the backup. For more information, see [Configure Snapshots](https://docs.replicated.com/vendor/snapshots-configuring-backups).

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Wickr. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query wickr` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).