Introduction<\/h3>\n

Awnix’s ARChive is great at completing backups and retaining project and server data. That being said, there are many pieces to the program that enable ARChive to do its main job of backing up your data.<\/p>\n

ARChive – a quick overview of how ARChive completes automatic backups<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First, when it’s time for a backup job to run, the ARChive scheduler starts up. After some verification checks, ARChive starts gathering data on the instance to put it into the database for record keeping and future restorations.<\/p>\n

Then ARChive quickly moves onto using the Python3 Nova client to create a snapshot of the instance in question. The module in use here is the .snapshot() method specifically. This is where ARChive does the handling of failures that happen because of quotas being over the limit and so on.<\/p>\nThis is a very simplified description of how ARChive does it’s backups, but I wanted to give some insight on the process of automatic backups for the purpose of contrast.
\nHowever, keep reading if you need to know how to do manual Openstack Backups instead of relying on ARChive’s super convenient automatic process.\n\t\t\t

Prerequisites<\/h3>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n

Before you start, make sure you are properly authenticated and have enough room to avoid any issues with the creation of a snapshot. Also, the following nova commands are run wherever the nova-api live in your system.<\/p>\n

When you run a backup using ARChive, what’s actually happening is that it starts off gathering the data of the instance\/volume you want to backup and uses the nova client to make a snapshot of the server while it’s running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Use the nova image-list<\/strong> to see the snapshot you made if the command above succeeds.<\/p>\n\t

Next Steps<\/h3>\n

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Openstack snapshot Commands<\/h4>\n

In my research, I have seen that using the nova commands for creating snapshots is deprecated, outside of using it in the nova-api of course.<\/p>\n

This method uses the openstack client commands and seems more straight forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ceph Snapshot<\/h4>\n

If you’re using ceph instead of nova here are some suggested commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h3>\n

It’s always great to know how to backup your data manually. However, it’s definitely easier to enable ARChive as your default to back it up automatically! If you need some help with manual backups, or our awesome ARChive program, just let us know and we’ll make sure you’re properly backed up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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