Back Up Your Deployment

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 Cinder Volume Backup.

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.