This topic describes the procedure for restoring your critical back end components with BOSH Backup and Restore (BBR), a command-line tool for backing up and restoring BOSH deployments.

For BBR release notes, see BOSH Backup and Restore Release Notes in the Cloud Foundry documentation.

Overview

To perform the procedures in this topic, you must have backed up your deployment by following the procedure in Backing Up Deployments with BBR.

The procedures described in this topic prepare your environment for VMware Tanzu Operations Manager (Ops Manager), deploy Ops Manager, import your installation settings, and use BBR to restore your Ops Manager components.

Caution: Restoring a deployment with BBR is a destructive operation. If the restore fails, the new environment could be left in an unusable state and require re-provisioning. Only perform the procedures in this topic for the purpose of disaster recovery, such as re-creating a deployment after a storage-area network (SAN) corruption.

Caution: When validating your backup, the VMs and disks from the backed-up BOSH Director should not be visible to the new BOSH Director. As a result, VMware recommends that you deploy the new BOSH Director to a different IaaS network and account than the VMs and disks of the backed-up BOSH Director.

Note: If the BOSH Director you are restoring had any deployments that were deployed manually rather than through a Ops Manager tile, you must restore them manually at the end of the process. For more information, see (Optional) Restore Non-Tile Deployments.

Compatibility of Restore

This section describes the restrictions for a backup artifact to be restorable to another environment. This section is for guidance only, and VMware recommends that you validate your backups by using the backup artifacts in a restore.

For a backup artifact to be restorable, these restrictions apply:

  • CIDR ranges: BBR requires the IP address ranges to be the same in the restore environment as in the backup environment.

  • Topology: BBR requires the BOSH topology of a deployment to be the same in the restore environment as it was in the backup environment.

  • Naming of instance groups and jobs: For any deployment that implements the backup and restore scripts, the instance groups and jobs must have the same names.

  • Number of instance groups and jobs: For instance groups and jobs that have backup and restore scripts, there must be the same number of instances.

  • Limited validation: BBR puts the backed-up data into the corresponding instance groups and jobs in the restored environment, but cannot validate the restore beyond that. For example, if the MySQL encryption key is different in the restore environment, the BBR restore might succeed, but the restored MySQL database is unusable.

  • Ops Manager version: BBR can restore to the same version of Ops Manager that was backed up. BBR does not support restoring to other major, minor, or patch releases.

Note: A change in VM size or underlying hardware does not affect the ability of BBR to restore data, as long as there is adequate storage space to restore the data.

Restore Workflow

The diagram illustrates the flow of the restore process in a series of steps performed by the operator. These steps are described in more detail throughout this topic.

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Steps performed by the operator:

  1. Launch new Ops Manager: Follow the procedures for your IaaS to deploy Ops Manager. For more information, see step 1 of Deploy Ops Manager and Import Installation Settings.

  2. Import settings: You can import settings either with the Ops Manager UI or API. For more information, see step 2 of Deploy Ops Manager and Import Installation Settings.

  3. Remove bosh-state.json: SSH into your Ops Manager VM and delete the bosh-state.json file. For more information, see Remove BOSH State File.

  4. Apply Changes (BOSH Director only): Use the Ops Manager API to only deploy the BOSH Director. For more information, see Deploy the BOSH Director.

  5. bbr restore <director>: Run the BBR restore command from your jumpbox to restore the BOSH Director. For more information, see Restore the BOSH Director.

  6. Use BOSH cck to fix the stale cloud ID references in the BOSH database: For each deployment in the BOSH Director, you must run a bosh cloud-check command. For more information, see Remove Stale Cloud IDs for All Deployments.

  7. Apply Changes: In the Ops Manager Installation Dashboard, click Review Pending Changes, review your changes, and click Apply Changes. For more information, see Reviewing Pending Product Changes.

  8. bbr restore <TAS for VMs>: Run the BBR restore command from your jumpbox to restore TAS for VMs. For more information, see Restore TAS for VMs.

Prepare to Restore

These sections describe the procedure you must perform before restoring your backup with BBR.

Step 1: (Optional) Prepare Your Environment

In the event of a disaster, you can lose not only your VMs and disks, but your IaaS resources as well, such as networks and load balancers.

If you need to re-create your IaaS resources, prepare your environment by following the instructions specific to your IaaS in Installation Overview.

Note: The instructions for installing a deployment on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenStack combine the procedures for preparing your environment and deploying Ops Manager into a single topic. The instructions for the other supported IaaSes split these procedures into two separate topics.

If you re-create your IaaS resources, you must also add those resources to Ops Manager by following the procedures in (Optional) Configure Ops Manager for New Resources.

Step 2: Deploy Ops Manager and Import Installation Settings

  1. Follow the procedures for your IaaS to deploy Ops Manager:

  2. Import your installation settings. This can be done in two ways:

    1. Using the Ops Manager UI:

      1. Access your new Ops Manager deployment by navigating to the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for your Ops Manager deployment in a browser.
      2. On the Welcome to Ops Manager page, click Import Existing Installation.

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      3. In the import panel:

        • Enter the Decryption Passphrase in use when you exported the installation settings from Ops Manager.
        • Click Browse and browse to the installation ZIP file that you exported in Export Installation Settings in Backing Up Deployments with BBR.

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      4. Click Import.

        Note: Some browsers do not provide feedback on the status of the import process, and might appear to hang. The import process takes at least 10 minutes, and takes longer the more tiles that were present on the backed-up Ops Manager.

      5. When the import is complete, a Successfully imported installation message appears.

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    2. Using the Ops Manager API:

      1. Run:

        curl -v "https://OPS-MANAGER-FQDN/api/v0/installation_asset_collection \
          -X POST \
          -H "Authorization: Bearer UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN" \
          -F 'installation[file]=@installation.zip' \
          -F 'passphrase=DECRYPTION-PASSPHRASE'
        

        Where:

        • OPS-MANAGER-FQDN is the FQDN for your Ops Manager deployment.
        • UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN is your UAA access token. For more information about how to retrieve this token, see Using the Ops Manager API.
        • DECRYPTION-PASSPHRASE is the decryption passphrase in use when you exported the installation settings from Ops Manager.

Caution: Do not click Apply Changes in Ops Manager until you reach the instructions in Redeploy TAS for VMs.

Step 3: (Optional) Configure Ops Manager for New Resources

If you re-created IaaS resources such as networks and load balancers by following the procedure in (Optional) Prepare Your Environment, you must update Ops Manager with your new resources.’

To update Ops Manager:

  1. Enable the advanced mode of Ops Manager. For more information, see How to Enable Advanced Mode in the Ops Manager in the Knowledge Base.

    Note: In advanced mode, Ops Manager allows you to make changes that are normally disallowed. You might see warning messages when you save changes.

  2. Navigate to the Installation Dashboard.

  3. Click the BOSH Director tile.

  4. If you are using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), click Google Config and update:

    1. Project ID to reflect the GCP project ID.
    2. Default Deployment Tag to reflect the environment name.
    3. AuthJSON to reflect the service account.
  5. Click Create Networks and update the network names to reflect the network names for the new environment.

  6. If your BOSH Director had an external hostname, modify the Director Hostname field in the Director Config pane of the BOSH Director tile to ensure it does not conflict with the hostname of the backed-up Director.

  7. Return to the Installation Dashboard.

  8. Click the TAS for VMs tile.

  9. Select Resource Config.

  10. If necessary for your IaaS, enter the name of your new load balancers in the Load Balancers column.

  11. If necessary, select Networking and update the load balancer SSL certificate and private key under Certificates and private keys for the GoRouter and HAProxy.

  12. If your environment has a new DNS address, update the old environment DNS entries to point to the new load balancer addresses. For more information, see the TAS for VMs documentation and follow the instructions for your IaaS.

  13. If your TAS for VMs deployment uses an external blobstore, ensure that the TAS for VMs tile is configured to use a different blobstore. Otherwise, it attempts to connect to the blobstore that the backed-up TAS for VMs deployment is using.

  14. Select Domains.

  15. Update your System domain and Apps domain refer to the new environment’s domains.

  16. Ensure that there are no outstanding warning messages in the BOSH Director tile, then deactivate Ops Manager advanced mode. For more information, see How to Enable Advanced Mode in the Ops Manager in the Knowledge Base.

Step 4: Remove BOSH State File

Ops Manager records the state of the BOSH Director in a BOSH state file. Ops Manager uses this file when performing a BOSH operation or upgrading the BOSH Director. For more information, see the BOSH documentation.

Ops Manager fails to apply changes if it cannot contact the BOSH Director. In most cases this is because the BOSH Director, as described by the BOSH state file, is missing or unresponsive.

If this failure is dangerous then it is recommended that you delete the BOSH state file. This forces Ops Manager to create a new BOSH Director.

To remove the BOSH state file:

  1. SSH into your Ops Manager VM. For more information, see Log Into the Ops Manager VM with SSH.

  2. To delete the /var/tempest/workspaces/default/deployments/bosh-state.json file, go to the Ops Manager VM and run:

    sudo rm /var/tempest/workspaces/default/deployments/bosh-state.json
    
  3. In a browser, navigate to the FQDN of your Ops Manager deployment.

  4. Log in to Ops Manager.

Step 5: Deploy the BOSH Director

Use the Ops Manager API or the checkbox on the Review Pending Changes page to deploy the BOSH Director by itself.

Step 6: Transfer Artifacts to Jumpbox

In the Back Up Your TAS for VMs Deployment step of Backing Up Deployments with BBR, you moved the TAR and metadata files of the backup artifacts off your jumpbox to your preferred storage space. Now you must transfer those files back to your jumpbox.

Restore Your Backup

These sections describe the procedure to restore your backup with BBR.

Step 7: Retrieve BOSH Director Credentials

To use BBR, you must retrieve and record the following credentials:

  • Bosh Director Credentials
  • Bbr Ssh Credentials
  • Uaa Bbr Client Credentials

There are two ways to retrieve BOSH Director credentials:

  • Ops Manager Installation Dashboard
  • Ops Manager API

Option 1: Ops Manager Installation Dashboard

To retrieve your BOSH Director credentials using the Ops Manager Installation Dashboard:

  1. Navigate to the Ops Manager Installation Dashboard.

  2. Click the BOSH Director tile.

  3. Click the Credentials tab.

    alt-text=BOSH Director Credentials pane showing links to many types of credentials.

  4. Locate Director Credentials.

    1. Click Link to Credentials next to it.
    2. Verify the value of the identity field. It should be director.
    3. Copy and record the value of the password field.
  5. Locate Bbr Ssh Credentials.

    1. Click Link to Credentials next to it.
    2. Copy the value of the private_key_pem field.
    3. Reformat the copied value and save it in the current directory to a file named PRIVATE-KEY-FILE. Run:

      printf -- "YOUR-PRIVATE-KEY" > PRIVATE-KEY-FILE
      

      Where:

      • YOUR-PRIVATE-KEY is the text of your private key.
      • PRIVATE-KEY-FILE is the path to the private key file you are creating.

      For example:

      $ printf --  "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIIEkeycontents ----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----" > bbr_key.pem
      
  6. Locate Uaa Bbr Client Credentials.

    1. Click Link to Credentials next to it.
    2. Verify the value of the identity field. It should be bbr_client.
    3. Record the value of the password field.

Option 2: Ops Manager API

To retrieve BOSH Director credentials using the Ops Manager API:

  1. Obtain your UAA access token. For more information, see Access the API in Using the Ops Manager API.

  2. Retrieve the Director Credentials.

    1. Run:

      curl "https://OPS-MAN-FQDN/api/v0/deployed/director/credentials/director_credentials" \
      -X GET \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN"
      

      Where:

      • OPS-MAN-FQDN is the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for your Ops Manager deployment.
      • UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN is your UAA access token.
    2. Verify the value of the identity field. It should be director.

    3. Record the value of the password field.
  3. Retrieve Bbr Ssh Credentials.

    1. Run:

      curl "https://OPS-MAN-FQDN/api/v0/deployed/director/credentials/bbr_ssh_credentials" \
      -X GET \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN"
      

      Where:

      • OPS-MAN-FQDN is the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for your Ops Manager deployment.
      • UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN is your UAA access token.
    2. Copy the value of the private_key_pem field.

    3. Reformat the copied value and save it in the current directory to a file named PRIVATE-KEY-FILE. Run:

      printf -- "YOUR-PRIVATE-KEY" > PRIVATE-KEY-FILE
      

      Where:

      • YOUR-PRIVATE-KEY is the text of your private key.
      • PRIVATE-KEY-FILE is the path to the private key file you are creating.

      For example:

      $ printf --  "-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIIEkeycontents ----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----" > bbr_key.pem
      
  4. Retrieve Uaa Bbr Client Credentials.

    1. Run:

      curl "https://OPS-MAN-FQDN/api/v0/deployed/director/credentials/uaa_bbr_client_credentials" \
      -X GET \
      -H "Authorization: Bearer UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN"
      

      Where:

      • OPS-MAN-FQDN is the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) for your Ops Manager deployment.
      • UAA-ACCESS-TOKEN is your UAA access token.
    2. Verify the value of the identity field. It should be bbr_client.

    3. Record the value of the password field.

For more information about using the Ops Manager API, see Using the Ops Manager API.

Step 8: Retrieve BOSH Director Address

To retrieve the IP address of your BOSH Director from the BOSH Director tile:

  1. If you are not using the Ops Manager VM as your jumpbox, install the latest BOSH CLI on your jumpbox.

  2. From the Installation Dashboard in Ops Manager, select BOSH Director > Status and record the IP address listed for the Director. You access the BOSH Director using this IP address.

    alt-text=Status tab on the BOSH Director pane. The IP address for the BOSH Director job is in the IPS column.

  3. From the command line, log in to the BOSH Director, using the IP address that you recorded above. Run:

    bosh -e DIRECTOR-IP \
    --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE log-in
    

    Where:

    • DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP address recorded above.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate as outlined in Set Up your Jumpbox.
  4. When prompted for Email (), specify director.

  5. When prompted for Password (), enter the Director Credentials that you obtained in Retrieve BOSH Director Credentials.

    For example:

    $ bosh -e 10.0.0.3 \
    --ca-cert /var/tempest/workspaces/default/root_ca_certificate log-in
    Email (): director
    Password (): *******************
    Successfully authenticated with UAA
    Succeeded
    

Step 9: Restore BOSH Director

Notes:
  • The BBR BOSH Director restore command can take at least 15 minutes to complete.
  • VMware recommends that you run it independently of the SSH session, so that the process can continue running even if your connection to the jumpbox fails. The command above uses nohup, but you could also run the command in a screen or tmux session.

To restore BOSH Director:

  1. SSH into your jumpbox. If you are using the Ops Manager VM as your jumpbox, see Log Into the Ops Manager VM with SSH for procedures on how to use SSH to connect to the Ops Manager VM.

  2. Ensure the BOSH Director backup artifact is in the directory you from which you run BBR.

  3. Run the BBR restore command from your jumpbox to restore the BOSH Director:

    bbr director \
    --private-key-path PRIVATE-KEY-FILE \
    --username bbr \
    --host HOST \
    restore \
    --artifact-path PATH-TO-BOSH-DIRECTOR-BACKUP
    

    Where:

    • PRIVATE-KEY-FILE is the path to the private key file you created in Retrieve BOSH Director Credentials.
    • HOST is the address of the BOSH Director.
      • If the BOSH Director is public, HOST is a URL, such as https://bosh-director.xxx.cf-app.com.
      • If the BOSH Director is not public, HOST is the BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-DIRECTOR-BACKUP is the path to the BOSH Director backup you want to restore.
      • (Optional) To enable debug logs, use the --debug flag. For more information, see Logging in Backing Up Deployments with BBR.
  4. After the command succeeds, continue to Identify Your Deployment. If the command fails:

    1. Run:

      bbr director \
      --private-key-path PRIVATE-KEY-FILE \
      --username bbr \
      --host HOST \
      restore-cleanup
      

      Where:

      • PRIVATE-KEY-FILE is the path to the private key file you created in Retrieve BOSH Credentials.
      • HOST is the address of the BOSH Director.
      • If the BOSH Director is public, HOST is a URL, such as https://bosh-director.xxx.cf-app.com.
      • If the BOSH Director is not public, HOST is the BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    2. Run the BBR restore command again after ensuring that:

      • All the parameters in the command are set.
      • The BOSH Director credentials are valid.
      • The specified deployment exists.
      • The source deployment is compatible with the target deployment.
      • That the jumpbox can reach the BOSH Director.

Step 10: Identify Your Deployment

To identify the name of the BOSH deployment that contains Ops Manager:

  1. Log in to your BOSH Director.

  2. Run:

    bosh -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE deployments
    

    Where:

    • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the certificate authority (CA) for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.

Step 11: Remove Stale Cloud IDs for All Deployments

To remove stale cloud IDs for all deployments:

  1. Review the deployments listed when performing Identify Your Deployment.

  2. To reconcile the BOSH Director’s internal state with the state in the IaaS, run:

    bosh -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP \
    --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE \
    -d DEPLOYMENT-NAME -n cck \
    --resolution delete_disk_reference \
    --resolution delete_vm_reference
    

    Where:

    • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the CA for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.
    • DEPLOYMENT-NAME is the deployment name you retrieved in Identify Your Deployment.

    Run this command for each deployment.

Step 12: Redeploy TAS for VMs

These sections describe the steps to redeploy TAS for VMs.

Determine the Required Stemcell

To determine which stemcell is used by TAS for VMs, either:

  • Review the Stemcell Library:

    1. Go to Stemcell Library.
    2. Record the TAS for VMs stemcell release number from the Staged column.
  • Review a stemcell list using BOSH CLI:

    1. To retrieve the stemcell release using the BOSH CLI, run:

      bosh -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP deployments
      

      Where BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.

For more information about stemcells in Ops Manager, see Importing and Managing Stemcells.

Upload the Stemcell

To upload the required stemcell:

  1. Download the stemcell from the Stemcells page on VMware Tanzu Network.

  2. Upload the stemcell used by TAS for VMs by running:

    bosh -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP \
    -d DEPLOYMENT-NAME \
    --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE \
    upload-stemcell \
    --fix PATH-TO-STEMCELL
    

    Where:

    • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    • DEPLOYMENT-NAME is the deployment name you retrieved in Identify Your Deployment.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the CA certificate for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.
    • PATH-TO-STEMCELL is the path to your tile’s stemcell.
  3. To ensure the stemcells for all of your other installed tiles have been uploaded, repeat the previous step, running bosh upload-stemcell --fix PATH-TO-STEMCELL, for each stemcell that is different from the already uploaded TAS for VMs stemcell.

Create External Databases

If your foundation is configured to use an external MySQL database instance, re-create the databases on the external database instance, and then ensure that your external database is suitably configured. For an example of how to create external databases, see Creating Databases for TAS for VMs.

If you do not know whether your foundation uses an external or internal database, look on the Databases pane in the TAS for VMs tile.

If your external database VM instance has also changed, for example, if the database instance has been lost, update the configuration settings in the Databases pane on the TAS for VMs tile. For information about the Databases pane, see Configure Databases.

Redeploy TAS for VMs

To redeploy TAS for VMs:

  1. Navigate to the Installation Dashboard.

  2. Click the TAS for VMs tile.

  3. Select Resource Config.

  4. Ensure the number of instances for MySQL Server is set to 1.

    Caution: Restore fails if there is not exactly one MySQL Server instance deployed.

  5. (Optional) Increase the CPU and memory of the backup_restore VM. This will decrease how long the restore process will take during Restore TAS for VMs.

  6. Ensure that all errands needed by your system are set to Run.

  7. Return to the Installation Dashboard.

  8. Click Review Pending Changes.

  9. Review your changes and ensure the TAS for VMs tile is selected. Other tiles are optional. For more information, see Reviewing Pending Product Changes.

  10. Click Apply Changes to redeploy.

Step 13: (Optional) Restore Service Data

Caution: BBR does not back up or restore any service data.

For this step, you must restore data to pre-provisioned service tiles.

The procedures for restoring service data vary. For more information, see the documentation for your service tile.

For example, if you are using Redis for Ops Manager v1.14, see Using BOSH Backup and Restore (BBR).

Step 14: Restore TAS for VMs

The BBR TAS for VMs restore command can take at least 15 minutes to complete.

After the BBR TAS for VMs restore completes, then Diego brings the apps back into a running state, unless TAS for VMs file storage has been configured to selectively back up the blobstore. In that case, you need to follow (Optional) Restore Apps to a Running State below.

VMware recommends that you run the BBR TAS for VMs restore command independently of the SSH session, so that the process can continue running even if your connection to the jumpbox fails. The command uses nohup, but you could also run the command in a screen or tmux session.

To restore your TAS for VMs backup:

  1. For more information, see the table in External Blobstore Support in Enabling External Blobstore Backups. If external blobstore support is not included in the version of Ops Manager and TAS for VMs you are using, restore the external blobstore with your IaaS-specific tools before restoring TAS for VMs.

  2. From your jumpbox, run:

    bbr deployment \
    --target BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP \
    --username BOSH-CLIENT \
    --password BOSH-PASSWORD \
    --deployment DEPLOYMENT-NAME \
    --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE \
    restore \
    --artifact-path PATH-TO-TAS for VMs-BACKUP
    

    Where:

    • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    • BOSH-CLIENT and BOSH-PASSWORD are the Uaa Bbr Client Credentials, identity and password that you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Credentials.
    • DEPLOYMENT-NAME is the deployment name you retrieved in Identify Your Deployment.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the CA for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.
    • PATH-TO-TAS for VMs-BACKUP is the path to the TAS for VMs backup you want to restore.
  3. (Optional) To scale the MySQL Server job back up to its previous number of instances:

    1. Navigate to the Installation Dashboard
    2. Click the the TAS for VMs tile.
    3. Select Resource Config.
    4. Scale the MySQL Server job back up.
    5. Return to the Installation Dashboard.
  4. Click Review Pending Changes.

  5. Review your changes. For more information, see Reviewing Pending Product Changes.

  6. Click Apply Changes to deploy.

  7. (Optional) Run cf apps to view the status of apps. By observing which apps are running and which are still pending, you can estimate how much longer the restore will take.

Step 15: (Optional) Restore Apps to a Running State

Restoring apps to a running state is only required if you configured a TAS for VMs file storage backup that excludes droplets or both droplets and packages. For more information about the advantages and disadvantages of excluding droplets and packages, see File Storage Backup Level.

To return apps to a running state:

  • If you excluded droplets from your backup, restage each app by running:

    cf restage APP-NAME
    

    Where APP-NAME is the name of the app you want to restage.

  • If you excluded both droplets and packages from your backup, re-push each app by running:

    cf push APP-NAME OPTIONAL-FLAGS
    

    Where:

    • APP-NAME is the name of the app you want to re-push.
    • OPTIONAL-FLAGS are any flags you want to use while re-pushing your app.

Step 16: (Optional) Restore On-Demand Service Instances

If you have on-demand service instances provisioned by an on-demand service broker, you can restore them after successfully restoring TAS for VMs.

Caution: If the leader is lost and you use an on-demand MySQL service instance plan that replicates between foundations, purge the lost service instance to avoid accidentally restoring the former leader. For more information, see Delete the Former Leader. Delete the former leader before running the Upgrade All Service Instances errand for MySQL.

To restore your on-demand service instances:

  1. Navigate to the Installation Dashboard.

  2. Click an on-demand service tile.

  3. Select the Errands tab.

  4. Ensure the Upgrade All Service Instances errand is On.

  5. Repeat for all on-demand service tiles.

  6. Return to the Installation Dashboard.

  7. Click Review Pending Changes.

  8. Click Apply Changes. This runs the Upgrade All Service Instances errand for the on-demand service, which redeploys the on-demand service instances.

  9. (Optional) Restore service data to every on-demand service instance.

  10. Any app on TAS for VMs bound to an on-demand service instance might need to be restarted to start consuming the restored on-demand service instances.

Step 17: (Optional) Restore Non-Tile Deployments

If you have any deployments that were deployed manually with the BOSH Director rather than through an Ops Manager tile, you must restore their VMs.

To restore the VMs:

  1. To obtain a list of all deployments on your BOSH Director, run:

    bosh -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP \
    --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE \
    deployments
    

    Where:

    • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the CA certificate for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.
  2. Identify the names of the deployments that you need to restore. Do not include the deployments from Ops Manager tiles.

  3. For each deployment you need to restore, run:

    bosh -n -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP \
    --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE \
    -d DEPLOYMENT-NAME \
    cck --resolution=recreate_vm
    

    Where:

    • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the CA for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.
    • DEPLOYMENT-NAME is the deployment name you retrieved in Identify Your Deployment.
  4. To verify the status of the VMs in each deployment, run:

    bosh -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP \
    --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE \
    -d DEPLOYMENT-NAME \
    vms
    

    Where:

    • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the CA for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.
    • DEPLOYMENT-NAME is the deployment name you retrieved in Identify Your Deployment.

The process state for all VMs should show as running.

After Restoring Your Backup

This section describes the procedures you must perform after restoring your backup with BBR.

Step 18: Remove Unused Disks

Caution: This is a very destructive operation.

Disks from a previous deployment prevent re-created deployments from working.

Use BOSH to Clean Up Disks

To clean up disk references:

  1. Run:

    bosh cloud-check
    

Manually Clean Up Disks

If bosh cloud-check does not clean up all disk references, you must manually delete the remaining disks.

To delete the remaining disks, follow one of these procedures:

  • Use the BOSH CLI to delete the disks:

    1. Target the redeployed BOSH Director using the BOSH CLI by following the procedures in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
    2. List the deployments by running:

      bosh -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP \
      --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE deployments
      

      Where:

      • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
      • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the CA for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.
    3. Delete each deployment by running:

      bosh -d DEPLOYMENT-NAME delete-deployment
      

      Where DEPLOYMENT-NAME is the deployment name you retrieved in Identify Your Deployment.

  • Log in to your IaaS account and delete the disks manually.

    1. To retrieve a list of disk IDs, run:

      bosh -e BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP \
      --ca-cert PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE instances -i
      

      Where:

      • BOSH-DIRECTOR-IP is the BOSH Director IP you retrieved in Retrieve BOSH Director Address.
      • PATH-TO-BOSH-SERVER-CERTIFICATE is the path to the CA for the BOSH Director, if the certificate is not verifiable by the local machine’s certificate chain.

After the disks are deleted, continue with Remove Stale Cloud IDs for All Deployments.

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