Nullpointer Exception on Backup about k8up HOT 5 CLOSED

Hello @Kidswiss

Good news your suggestion worked perfectly !!

I checked the snapshots and saw they did not have the repository field that was added recently so I checked my CRDs and found out I forgot to update them (silly me).

I updated the CRDs and then deleted all snapshots as you suggested and everything worked.

Thank you very much for your kind help

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Hi @sashokbg

Do you have any snapshot objects in that namespace? kubectl get snapshots? If you do, could you please post the yaml output of one of those?

It looks to me that a field is not correctly populated in the snapshot object when using the swift backend.

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Hello @Kidswiss thank you for your message here are some yamls from the snapshots:

apiVersion: k8up.io/v1
kind: Snapshot
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2023-05-14T02:00:26Z"
  generation: 1
  name: f4856c6f
  namespace: home-cloud
  resourceVersion: "85254"
  uid: cc1e2de6-35e1-4dcd-934c-e36b06914cb3
spec:
  date: "2023-03-27T02:00:20Z"
  id: f4856c6fe842d6421187f9368171089fde4316bcf5c7a9053cceba10f192f339
  paths:
  - /home-cloud-postgresql.sql

apiVersion: k8up.io/v1
kind: Snapshot
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: "2023-05-14T02:00:28Z"
  generation: 1
  name: f0cd4ef4
  namespace: home-cloud
  resourceVersion: "85267"
  uid: d5a29422-c0b5-4d79-b4e4-a3f573592155
spec:
  date: "2023-04-18T02:00:12Z"
  id: f0cd4ef4c1f4d26b0eb823310303c2357ef14e7dbaf0f714b18b26abb2603ae0
  paths:
  - /data/data-nextcloud

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Hello @Kidswiss I have worked on adding the swift support via EnvFrom variables in #657 can you please give me some directions where the NPE might be comming from ? I am not well versed in GO unfortunately :(

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Hi @sashokbg

Sorry was a bit busy...

I just checked your snapshots and I see that the field spec.repository is missing. That's what's causing the nilpointer.

It should take the value of RESTIC_REPOSITORY in the backup pod to populate this field. Could you please post a yaml of the backup pod? I'd like to check if all environment variables are available as expected.

EDIT: it might start to work if you use envFrom to inject following envVar:

RESTIC_REPOSITORY=swift:home-cloud-backup-storage/archives

Then you delete the existing snapshot objects in the namespace and trigger a backup again.

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