You can use the command line to back up your OpenStack deployment.

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 is finished.

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 backup in YAML format.

    Use the following template:

    ---
name: backup-name 
description: backup-description
target:
   kind: contentLibrary
   contentLibrary:
      name: content-library-name
    Option Description

    backup-name

    Enter a name for the backup. The alphanumeric string can include special characters (-) and (_).

    backup-description

    Enter a description of the backup.

    content-library-name

    Enter the name of the Content Library for the backup save.
  3. Specify the vCenter Server for the backup. 
    viocli create vcenter --vc_hostname <hostname> --vc_password <password> --vc_username <username>
    Or use an alias for the Kubernetes command-line utility to get the vCenter Server from the deployment. 
    osctl get vcenter
  4. Create the backup with the configuration file and the vCenter Server. 
    viocli create backup -f <configuration-file> --content-vcenter <vcenter-name>

Results

A backup of your deployment is saved to the content library that you specified in the backup configuration file.