Back up the main platform elements

This page describes how to perform a basic backup of the platform. You could use this when you are performing a minor upgrade or in addition to VM snapshots for a major upgrade

Before you begin:

• Stop platform services

To perform a basic backup of the platform, run the following backups:

1. 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)

2. 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)
   

3. Back up /opt/abiquo folder on all Abiquo platform servers.

   tar cvfz /opt/abiquo.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /opt/abiquo

4. Back up the UI

   tar cvfz /var/www/html/ui.tgz-$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S) /var/www/html/ui

5. 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)

When the backup steps are done, store the resulting files in a secure location.

Related topics

• Upgrade Abiquo
• Stop platform services