For a better part of 8 hours i have been trying to restore a backup i have to a new env.
The old env is a digital ocean setup and the new one a k3s single node.
The backup has been created with the following file:
---
apiVersion: awx.ansible.com/v1beta1
kind: AWXBackup
metadata:
name: awxbackup-20250121
namespace: awx
spec:
deployment_name: awx-deployments
And after creating a temp pod and grabbing the backup i get 3 files:
-rw-r--r--@ 1 REDACTED REDACTED 2662 Oct 10 08:42 awx_object
-rw-r--r--@ 1 REDACTED REDACTED 18573 Oct 10 08:42 secrets.yml
-rw-r--r--@ 1 REDACTED REDACTED 995910808 Oct 10 08:42 tower.db
which looks good!
New server
On the new server i created a operator kustomization.yml with the content:
apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Kustomization
resources:
- github.com/ansible/awx-operator/config/default?ref=2.9.0
# Set the image tags to match the git version from above
images:
- name: quay.io/ansible/awx-operator
newTag: 2.9.0
# Specify a custom namespace in which to install AWX
namespace: awx
And it spined up fine, no issues there.
I figured out you need a AWXbackup object on the new env, so i created it:
apiVersion: awx.ansible.com/v1beta1
kind: AWXBackup
metadata:
name: awx-backup-migration
namespace: awx
spec:
deployment_name: awx-deployments
I also created AWXrestore object with:
apiVersion: awx.ansible.com/v1beta1
kind: AWXRestore
metadata:
name: awx-backup-restore
namespace: awx
spec:
deployment_name: awx_deployments
backup_name: awx-backup-migration
no_log: false
force_drop_db: true
i then noticed the operator log is spitting out error’s which cannot be viewed because no_log has been set 
, well no worries i might find something else i thought.. and yes..
I found in the docs you can use:
kubectl get awxbackup awx-backup-migration -o jsonpath="{.items[0].status.backupDirectory}"
to get a list of backups, so i thought i had the name wrong.. nope..
The output is empty:
root@k3s:~/awx-operator# kubectl get awxbackup awx-backup-migration -o jsonpath="{.items[0].status.backupDirectory}"
root@k3s:~/awx-operator#
AAH! i forget to place the data in the correct location? No. I created a temp pod:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: awx-backup-restore
namespace: awx
spec:
containers:
- name: restore-container
image: busybox:latest
command: ["/bin/sh", "-c", "sleep 3600"]
volumeMounts:
- mountPath: /backups
name: awx-backup-pvc
volumes:
- name: awx-backup-pvc
persistentVolumeClaim:
claimName: awx-deployments-backup-claim
i get into it:
kubectl exec -it awx-backup-restore -n awx -- /bin/sh
And behold, in the folder /backups/ there is a folder called awx-backup-migration with the 3 files i mentioned above.
It’s really strange that i do not see the backup with the command mentioned earlier.
I hope someone can tell me what i am doing wrong.