Restore Order

[codeviking]

I'm using Velero for cluster restores and it's working well for a number of resources, but seems to fail for a particular use-case.

The use-case involves backing up and restoring things created by cert-manager. Specifically, I'm backing up Ingress which own Certificates which own CertificateRequests which own Orders.

When I restore these things the owner references get lost. I've tried restoring things in the order of ownership (i.e. by restoring Ingress first, then Certificates and so on), but I still see no owner references when things are restored.

This causes problems when cert-manager itself is restored, as the lack of owner references cause it to start reissuing the certificates. We have 100s of certificates so this can quickly trip LetsEncrypt's rate limit, and kind of defeats the point of restoring them.

I'd love to know if someone has ran into similar issues and has ideas for solving this. Thanks!