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 Pausing backups
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*Kubedr* supports pausing and resuming backups. 

To pause a backup, you need to patch the ``MetadataBackupPolicy``
resource by following standard Kubernetes way of `making partial
changes`_ to a resource.

First, create a file called ``suspend.yaml`` (you can choose any name
you want) with the following contents:

.. code-block:: yaml

  spec:
    suspend: true

Replace ``<NAME>`` in the following command with the name of the policy
resource and then run it:

.. code-block:: bash

  $ kubectl -n kubedr-system patch \
    metadatabackuppolicy.kubedr.catalogicsoftware.com/<NAME> \
    --patch "$(cat suspend.yaml)" --type merge

You can verify that the backups are indeed suspended by checking the
cronjob resource as follows ("SUSPEND" column should show "True"):

.. code-block:: bash

  $ kubectl -n kubedr-system get cronjobs
  NAME                             SCHEDULE      SUSPEND   ACTIVE   LAST SCHEDULE   AGE
  test-backup-new-backup-cronjob   */2 * * * *   True     0        5m59s           13m

To resume backups, follow the same procedure as above but this time,
use the following snippet:

.. code-block:: yaml

  spec:
    suspend: false

.. _making partial changes: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/run-application/update-api-object-kubectl-patch/