Backup and restore

1. Backup

2. Restore

3. Planning

 

1. Backup

The script ose-backup.pl is a perl script that is in charge of the backup of the following elements:

 

• The configuration files of OpenNMS (/opt/opennms/etc by default)
• The database of OpenNMS
• The data of OpenNMS (/opt/opennms/share by default)
• The data of OpenNMS (/opt/opennms/share by default) and the database
• The configuration files of OpenNMS (/opt/opennms/etc by default), the data of OpenNMS (/opt/opennms/share by default) and the database

 

The saved data are compressed in a tar.gz archive and moved in the directory /backup.

 

The name of the archive is backup_<kind of backup>_<date>_<time>.tar.gz.

 

For more details on the script ose-backup.pl, type in a terminal ose-backup.pl --help.

 

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2. Restore

The script ose-restore.pl is a script that is charge of the restore of the following elements:

 

For more details on the script ose-restore.pl, type in a terminal ose-restore.pl --help.

 

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3. Planning

The crontab of user root is used to make backup regularly.

 

By default the following actions are executed:

 

• Backup data and database of OpenNMS every day at 1h00 AM
• Backup of configuration files of OpenNMS every sunday at 2h00 AM
• A deletion of backups aged than more 7 days every day at 3h00 AM