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title: Charmhub | Deploy Velero Operator Charm using Charmhub - The Open Operator
  Collection
description: Deploy the latest version of Velero Operator Charm on any cloud.
url: https://charmhub.io/velero-operator/docs/file-system-backup
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# Velero Operator Charm

[Kubeflow Charmers](https://charmhub.io/publisher/ckfbot "View all packages from Kubeflow Charmers")

* [Kubeflow Charmers](https://charmhub.io/publisher/ckfbot "View all packages from Kubeflow Charmers")

Platform:

24.04

edge 503

```
juju deploy velero-operator --channel edge
```

[Learn to deploy on juju >](https://juju.is/docs/juju/manage-applications)

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#### Relevant links

* [Homepage](https://github.com/canonical/velero-operator)

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#### Contacts

* [Submit a bug](https://github.com/canonical/velero-operator/issues)

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# File system backup

The file system backup (FSB), also called Pod volume backup, reads data from the mounted volumes on nodes via the Velero node-agent DaemonSet and writes it to your backup storage. It uses modules from open-source tools such as Restic and Kopia.

## [When to use FSB](https://charmhub.io/velero-operator/docs/file-system-backup#p-39716-when-to-use-fsb)

* Your storage/CSI doesn’t support volume snapshots, or snapshots are unreliable/unavailable in the target environment.
* You need a provider-agnostic capture of Pod volumes (e.g., NFS/hostPath), or a fallback for volumes the snapshotter can’t handle.
* You want Velero to back up files rather than rely on cloud disk APIs.

Expect higher runtime and object-store usage vs. snapshots.

## [Enable FSB in Charmed Velero](https://charmhub.io/velero-operator/docs/file-system-backup#p-39716-enable-fsb-in-charmed-velero)

You can turn on node-agent and make FS backup the default for Pod volumes by setting the following config options to `true`:

```
juju config velero-operator use-node-agent=true
juju config velero-operator default-volumes-to-fs-backup=true
```

* `use-node-agent` deploys the DaemonSet that performs FSB.
* `default-volumes-to-fs-backup` makes all pod volumes use FSB by default (no pod annotations required).

See [Velero file system backup](https://velero.io/docs/v1.15/file-system-backup/) for more details.

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