Create a Scheduled Backup Task

You can configure your deployment to be automatically backed up on a regular schedule.

Important: The temporary configuration file created in this procedure contains the vCenter Server credentials in plaintext. For security purposes, delete this file after the backup task has been created.

The following items are backed up:

• Configurations for OpenStack components
• OpenStack control plane database
• Deployment secrets

For information about backing up Cinder, see Configure the Backup Service for Cinder.

Prerequisites

Create a content library in your vCenter Server instance. For information about content libraries, see Using Content Libraries.

Procedure

1. Log in to the Integrated OpenStack Manager as the root user.

   ssh root@mgmt-server-ip

2. In a text editor, create the configuration file for the scheduled backup in YAML format.

   Use the following template:

   ---
   namePrefix: backup-name-prefix
   description: backup-description
   backupSchedule: backup-schedule
   retentionPolicy:
     maximumNumberOfBackup: max-backups
   target:
      kind: contentLibrary
      contentLibrary:
         name: content-library-name
         hostname: vcserver-fqdn
         username: vcserver-admin
         password: vcserver-password

   Option	Description
   backup-name-prefix	Enter a prefix for the backup files. The alphanumeric string can include the special character (-).
   backup-description	Enter a description of the backup.
   backup-schedule	Specify the backup schedule as a five-field cron expression. For example, enter "5 0 * * *" to back up every day at 00:05.
   max-backups	The maximum number of backups to retain. Enter an integer greater than 0.
   content-library-name	Enter the name of the Content Library for the backup save.
   vcserver-fqdn	Enter the FQDN of the vCenter Server instance containing the content library.
   vcserver-admin	Enter the username of a vCenter Server administrator.
   vcserver-password	Enter the password of the specified vCenter Server administrator.

3. Create the backup task with the configuration file.

   viocli create backupschedule -f <configuration-file>

Results

The backup task is created, and backups of your deployment are saved to the content library according to the specified schedule.