# How do I backup my keyring file within a Kubernetes Cluster on GKE?

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**Category:** Percona Operator for MySQL\
**Created:** [August 24, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-do-i-backup-my-keyring-file-within-a-kubernetes-cluster-on-gke/17138 "2022-08-24T09:18:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![brucel33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@brucel33](https://forums.percona.com/u/brucel33)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-do-i-backup-my-keyring-file-within-a-kubernetes-cluster-on-gke/17138/1 "2022-08-24T09:18:42Z")

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I am trying to backup my keyring file within a Percona XtraDB Cluster running on a GKE cluster. The keyring file is stored on a persistent disk.

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**Author:** ![Sergey\_Pronin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sergey_pronin/32/14887_2.png) [@Sergey\_Pronin](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sergey_Pronin)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2022, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-do-i-backup-my-keyring-file-within-a-kubernetes-cluster-on-gke/17138/2 "2022-09-19T09:00:51Z")

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Hello @brucel33,

hope you are well. Could you please tell me more about your setup? I assume that you use data-at-rest encryption and you use our Operator. Is that correct?  
Do you use Hashicorp Vault for it or manually set the key?