Backup while pods are running

[2020testuser]

Hi,
Could anyone shed some light on the below?

How the Velero namespace backup will be performed when the pods are running and using the database connections. Will the database connections and other connections be temporarily paused to perform the backup?

Would like to understand how the backup would be done when jobs / pods are running.
Thanks in advance!

[ashish-amarnath]

Velero will not interrupt or pause your application pods while backing them up unless you specifically ask it to.
Using velero backup hooks it is possible to quiesce and un-quiesce databases hosted by pods Velero is backing up.
Similarly, using velero restore hooks you can ensure that the data is ready before the database application containers are restored.