Posts by Dave Smith-Uchida

Dave Smith-Uchida

Dave Smith-Uchida is a Technical Leader at Veeam. Dave has been a leader in data protection for Kubernetes for the last several years. In addition to his work at Veeam on the Kasten product, he is a founding member of the Kubernetes Data Protection Working Group and was formerly the architect for the Velero Open Source Kubernetes backup project. Dave remains involved in a number of open source projects including Kubernetes, Velero, Kanister and Astrolabe. He has over thirty years’ experience ranging from embedded systems to supercomputing and cloud systems, with an emphasis on storage and networking technologies.

Technical | October 8, 2024 (Updated January 19, 2026) 7 min to read

What is the Best Way to Protect your Kubernetes Cluster Against Disaster?

I have been working on this Kubernetes Data Protection Working Group (WG) for four years. As part of SIG-Storage, this WG covers the backup and recovery of Kubernetes and cloud-native workloads. A frequent ask to the WG is, "how do I back up my etcd database?" Read more

Kubernetes

Dave Smith-Uchida

Technical | June 15, 2023 (Updated May 15, 2024) 4 min to read

What is Instant Recovery in Kasten K10 by Veeam?

Instant Recovery for Kubernetes is a new feature in Kasten K10 and VBR V12 that allows users to leverage some powerful features of VBR and vSphere to get Kubernetes workloads running very quickly. Read more

Kubernetes

Dave Smith-Uchida