To perform a basic backup of the platform, run the following backups:
Before you begin, stop platform services and check you have enough space on your destination systems
Back up the Abiquo MySQL DBs with the date in timestamp format.
mysqldump --routines --triggers kinton > kinton.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) mysqldump --routines --triggers kinton_accounting > kinton_accounting.sql-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
Dump the Redis datastore and back it up.
redis-cli save cp -a /var/lib/redis /var/lib/redis-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
Back up /opt/abiquo folder on all Abiquo platform servers.
tar cvfz /opt/abiquo.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /opt/abiquo
Back up the UI
tar cvfz /var/www/html/ui.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /var/www/html/ui
If you are using SAML authentication with multiple IdPs, back up this file from every API server:
cp /opt/abiquo/tomcat/webapps/api/WEB-INF/classes/springresources/security/saml/security-saml-generated-beans.xml /opt/abiquo/tomcat/webapps/api/WEB-INF/classes/springresources/security/saml/security-saml-generated-beans.xml-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)