This backup procedure will operate on the three principal Rudder data sources:
- The LDAP database
- The PostgreSQL database
- The configuration-repository folder
It will also backup the application logs.
How to backup a Rudder installation.
# First, backup the LDAP database: /opt/rudder/sbin/slapcat -l /tmp/rudder-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).ldif # Second, the PostgreSQL database: sudo -u postgres pg_dump rudder > /tmp/rudder-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).sql # Or without sudo, use the rudder application password: pg_dump -U rudder rudder > /tmp/rudder-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).sql # Third, backup the configuration repository: tar -C /var/rudder -zvcf /tmp/rudder-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz configuration-repository/ cfengine-community/ppkeys/ # Finally, backup the logs: tar -C /var/log -zvcf /tmp/rudder-log-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.gz rudder/ # And put the backups wherever you want, here /root: cp /tmp/rudder-backup* /root cp /tmp/rudder-log-backup* /root
