Backup management
CC-IN2P3 official backup service
On the cloud instances as well as on all the CC-IN2P3 machines, you may configure your files backup with the backup service (TSM).
Through the cloud
You may use the openstack functionality to perform snapshots of your servers disk image (see image-create API command).
Occasional backup
You can make a consistent snapshot of your VMs with the command:
% openstack server image create --name SNAPSHOT_NAME SERVER_NAME
You will then find the snapshot in the list of images in the catalog:
% openstack image-show SNAPSHOT_NAME
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property | Value |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
| Property 'base_image_ref' | cedd3e88-4845-4c0c-bd16-743d3830a08f |
| Property 'image_location' | snapshot |
| Property 'image_state' | available |
| Property 'image_type' | snapshot |
| Property 'instance_uuid' | 83886683-5a73-4777-887d-1537561647a2 |
| Property 'owner_id' | 9d0fa8a82fe8449cad50729381a29a7a |
| Property 'user_id' | d0bc48fb8d8c414a9da8983c85c754f5 |
| checksum | c18d4e707c8db0bc1c11a55ef820ffa1 |
| container_format | bare |
| created_at | 2016-04-01T13:13:18.000000 |
| deleted | False |
| disk_format | qcow2 |
| id | 42e33dbb-39f2-4acd-8bdd-34eecd873bde |
| is_public | False |
| min_disk | 20 |
| min_ram | 0 |
| name | NOM_DU_SNAPSHOT |
| owner | 9d0fa8a82fe8449cad50729381a29a7a |
| protected | False |
| size | 4239917056 |
| status | active |
| updated_at | 2016-04-01T13:17:36.000000 |
+---------------------------+--------------------------------------+
Periodic backup
You may program a recurring snapshot with the command:
% openstack server set --property autobackup=true SERVER_NAME
A weekly backup is performed automatically. The backup may be found in the image catalogue glance and is called autobackup-$UUID. To restore this backup (careful, the operation is destructive for your current instance):
% openstack server rebuild --image autobackup-$UUID SERVER_NAME