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The Backup That Wasn't: 136 Days of Green Checkmarks and Zero Data

Our nightly Velero backups reported 'Completed' every single night. Then we actually looked at what was inside them: nothing. Here's how a silent default in local-path-provisioner backed up 550 KB of metadata and zero files for 136 days — and how we found it, fixed it, and proved the fix with a real restore.

Oct 2026 · 6 min