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vmbackupmanager
vmbackupmanager is a part of enterprise package. It is available for download and evaluation at releases page
The VictoriaMetrics backup manager automates regular backup procedures. It supports the following backup intervals: hourly, daily, weekly and monthly. Multiple backup intervals may be configured simultaneously. I.e. the backup manager creates hourly backups every hour, while it creates daily backups every day, etc. Backup manager must have read access to the storage data, so best practice is to install it on the same machine (or as a sidecar) where the storage node is installed. The backup service makes a backup every hour and puts it to the latest folder and then copies data to the folders which represent the backup intervals (hourly, daily, weekly and monthly)
The required flags for running the service are as follows:
- -eula - should be true and means that you have the legal right to run a backup manager. That can either be a signed contract or an email with confirmation to run the service in a trial period
- -storageDataPath - path to VictoriaMetrics or vmstorage data path to make backup from
- -snapshot.createURL - VictoriaMetrics creates snapshot URL which will automatically be created during backup. Example: http://victoriametrics:8428/snapshot/create
- -dst - backup destination at s3, gcs or local filesystem
- -credsFilePath - path to file with GCS or S3 credentials. Credentials are loaded from default locations if not set. See https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-account-keys and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-security-credentials.html
Backup schedule is controlled by the following flags:
- -disableHourly - disable hourly run. Default false
- -disableDaily - disable daily run. Default false
- -disableWeekly - disable weekly run. Default false
- -disableMonthly - disable monthly run. Default false
By default, all flags are turned on and Backup Manager backups data every hour for every interval (hourly, daily, weekly and monthly).
The backup manager creates the following directory hierarchy at -dst:
- /latest/ - contains the latest backup
- /hourly/ - contains hourly backups. Each backup is named as YYYY-MM-DD:HH
- /daily/ - contains daily backups. Each backup is named as YYYY-MM-DD
- /weekly/ - contains weekly backups. Each backup is named as YYYY-WW
- /monthly/ - contains monthly backups. Each backup is named as YYYY-MM
To get the full list of supported flags please run the following command:
./vmbackupmanager --help
The service creates a full backup each run. This means that the system can be restored fully from any particular backup using vmrestore. Backup manager uploads only the data that has been changed or created since the most recent backup (incremental backup).
Please take into account that the first backup upload could take a significant amount of time as it needs to upload all of the data.
There are two flags which could help with performance tuning:
- -maxBytesPerSecond - the maximum upload speed. There is no limit if it is set to 0
- -concurrency - The number of concurrent workers. Higher concurrency may improve upload speed (default 10)
Example of Usage
GCS and cluster version. You need to have a credentials file in json format with following structure
credentials.json
{
"type": "service_account",
"project_id": "<project>",
"private_key_id": "",
"private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
"client_email": “test@<project>.iam.gserviceaccount.com",
"client_id": "",
"auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
"token_uri": "https://oauth2.googleapis.com/token",
"auth_provider_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs",
"client_x509_cert_url": "https://www.googleapis.com/robot/v1/metadata/x509/test%40<project>.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
}
Backup manager launched with the following configuration:
export NODE_IP=192.168.0.10
export VMSTORAGE_ENDPOINT=http://127.0.0.1:8428
./vmbackupmanager -dst=gs://vmstorage-data/$NODE_IP -credsFilePath=credentials.json -storageDataPath=/vmstorage-data -snapshot.createURL=$VMSTORAGE_ENDPOINT/snapshot/create -eula
Expected logs in vmbackupmanager:
info lib/backup/actions/backup.go:131 server-side copied 81 out of 81 parts from GCS{bucket: "vmstorage-data", dir: "192.168.0.10//latest/"} to GCS{bucket: "vmstorage-data", dir: "192.168.0.10//weekly/2020-34/"} in 2.549833008s
info lib/backup/actions/backup.go:169 backed up 853315 bytes in 2.882 seconds; deleted 0 bytes; server-side copied 853315 bytes; uploaded 0 bytes
Expected logs in vmstorage:
info VictoriaMetrics/lib/storage/table.go:146 creating table snapshot of "/vmstorage-data/data"...
info VictoriaMetrics/lib/storage/storage.go:311 deleting snapshot "/vmstorage-data/snapshots/20200818201959-162C760149895DDA"...
info VictoriaMetrics/lib/storage/storage.go:319 deleted snapshot "/vmstorage-data/snapshots/20200818201959-162C760149895DDA" in 0.169 seconds
The result on the GCS bucket
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The root folder
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The latest folder
Backup Retention Policy
Backup retention policy is controlled by:
- -keepLastHourly - keep the last N hourly backups. Disabled by default
- -keepLastDaily - keep the last N daily backups. Disabled by default
- -keepLastWeekly - keep the last N weekly backups. Disabled by default
- -keepLastMonthly - keep the last N monthly backups. Disabled by default
Note: 0 value in every keepLast flag results into deletion ALL backups for particular type (hourly, daily, weekly and monthly)
Let’s assume we have a backup manager collecting daily backups for the past 10 days.
We enable backup retention policy for backup manager by using following configuration:
export NODE_IP=192.168.0.10
export VMSTORAGE_ENDPOINT=http://127.0.0.1:8428
./vmbackupmanager -dst=gs://vmstorage-data/$NODE_IP -credsFilePath=credentials.json -storageDataPath=/vmstorage-data -snapshot.createURL=$VMSTORAGE_ENDPOINT/snapshot/create
-keepLastDaily=3 -eula
Expected logs in backup manager on start:
info lib/logger/flag.go:20 flag "keepLastDaily" = "3"
Expected logs in backup manager during retention cycle:
info app/vmbackupmanager/retention.go:106 daily backups to delete [daily/2021-02-13 daily/2021-02-12 daily/2021-02-11 daily/2021-02-10 daily/2021-02-09 daily/2021-02-08 daily/2021-02-07]
The result on the GCS bucket. We see only 3 daily backups:
