This document is a guide to backing up Abiquo. Every Abiquo installation is different so you must ensure that your backup configuration is appropriate for your installation. This guide gives a general explanation of which parts of Abiquo need to be backed up and how to do this manually and with Rsnapshot.

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Create backups

Abiquo Server, Remote Services and V2V

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$ cp /etc/fstab /path/to/backup/fstab

Restore

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backups

Abiquo Server, Remote Services, and V2V

Restore Abiquo properties:

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$ /etc/init.d/redis stop
$ cp /path/to/backup/redis/dump.rdb /var/lib/redis
$ /etc/init.d/redis start

Abiquo

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remote services

Restore /etc/fstab configuration:

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$ /etc/init.d/dhcpd stop
$ cp /path/to/backup/dhcp/dhcpd.leases* /var/lib/dhcpd/
$ /etc/init.d/dhcpd start

Restart Abiquo

Now you can restart the Abiquo Tomcat daemon:

$ service abiquo-tomcat restart

Configure a

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remote backup server

Now we will describe how to configure a remote CentOS server to do the backups via rsnapshot. In this example we have an Abiquo Server (10.60.20.100) and an Abiquo Remote Services Server (10.60.20.101).

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First of all, on the backup server, install rsnapshot (you may need to install RPMForge repositories (first, you can follow the follow the CentOS RPMForge guide) and then install rsnapshot:

$ rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
$ wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
$ rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm
$ yum -y install rsnapshot

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As you can see in the configuration above, we use scripts in order to do MySQL and Redis dumps. The scripts are stored on the backup server. Put them under your /opt/backups/ directory, and modify the HOST variable to suit your needs:

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backup_mysql.sh

#!/bin/bash
HOST="10.60.20.100"
MYSQL_DB="kinton"
FILE=${MYSQL_DB}.$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S").sql.gz

# dump the database and gzip it
ssh root@${HOST} "mysqldump ${MYSQL_DB}" | gzip -9 > ${FILE}

backup_redis.sh

#!/bin/bash
HOST="10.60.20.101"
REDIS_DUMP="/var/lib/redis/dump.rdb"
FILE=dump.$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S").rdb.gz

# dump the database and gzip it
ssh root@${HOST} "redis-cli save"
ssh root@${HOST} "cat ${REDIS_DUMP}"  | gzip -9 > ${FILE}

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