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

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
    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.
  3. Specify the vCenter Server for the scheduled 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 task with the configuration file and the vCenter Server. 
    viocli create backupschedule -f <configuration-file> --content-vcenter <vcenter-name>

Results

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

You can also check scheduled backups and delete scheduled backups. Detailed information about the backup cronjob is included in the output when you check scheduled backups.

To check scheduled backups: viocli get backupschedule

Example output. 
SCHEDULE NAME       STATUS    CREATION DATE                  NAME PREFIX   MAX BACKUPS RETAINED   KIND             LOCATION                          DESCRIPTION
backupschedule322   Unknown   Wed Jun 17 13:53:42 UTC 2020   vio7-backup   2                      ContentLibrary   192.168.111.29:backupcontentlib   Backups for VIO7 deployment

To delete a scheduled backup: viocli delete backupschedule <backup_schedule_name>

Delete command using the schedule name from the example: viocli delete backupschedule backupschedule322