Can an etcd backup be used to restore state on a new cluster?
Issue
- An etcd backup has been collected from a running OpenShift cluster using the procedure defined in the official OpenShift documentation: Backing up etcd data.
 - Can this etcd backup be used on another newly-provisioned cluster to restore the cluster workloads?
 
Environment
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP)
- 4
 
 - etcd
 
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