Restore Your Deployment from a Backup

You can restore your VMware Integrated OpenStack management server and OpenStack database from a backup.

If you want to recover individual nodes, see Recover OpenStack Nodes.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have a backup of the management server and database available. See Back Up Your Deployment.

Procedure

1. Log in to the OpenStack Management Server as viouser.
2. Restore the OpenStack Management Server data.

   sudo viocli restore mgmt_server backup-folder nfs-host-ip

   Option	Description
   backup-folder	Enter the name of the backup folder for OpenStack Management Server data. These folders are in the format vio_ms_yyyymmddhhmmss.
   nfs-host-ip	Specify the IP address of the NFS host where the backup folder is located.

3. Restore the OpenStack database.

   sudo viocli restore openstack_db backup-folder nfs-host-ip

   Option	Description
   backup-folder	Enter the name of the backup folder for the OpenStack database. These folders are in the format vio_os_db_yyyymmddhhmmss.
   nfs-host-ip	Specify the IP address of the NFS host where the backup folder is located.

Results

The OpenStack Management Server and OpenStack database are restored to the state of the backups.