VictoriaMetrics/docs/vmrestore.md

vmrestore

vmrestore restores data from backups created by vmbackup. VictoriaMetrics v1.29.0 and newer versions must be used for working with the restored data.

Restore process can be interrupted at any time. It is automatically resumed from the interruption point when restarting vmrestore with the same args.

Usage

VictoriaMetrics must be stopped during the restore process.

vmrestore -src=gcs://<bucket>/<path/to/backup> -storageDataPath=<local/path/to/restore>

• <bucket> is GCS bucket name.
• <path/to/backup> is the path to backup made with vmbackup on GCS bucket.
• <local/path/to/restore> is the path to folder where data will be restored. This folder must be passed to VictoriaMetrics in -storageDataPath command-line flag after the restore process is complete.

The original -storageDataPath directory may contain old files. They will be substituted by the files from backup, i.e. the end result would be similar to rsync --delete.

Troubleshooting

• If vmrestore eats all the network bandwidth, then set -maxBytesPerSecond to the desired value.
• If vmrestore has been interrupted due to temporary error, then just restart it with the same args. It will resume the restore process.

Advanced usage

• Obtaining credentials from a file.

  Add flag -credsFilePath=/etc/credentials with following content:

  for s3 (aws, minio or other s3 compatible storages):

  [default]
  aws_access_key_id=theaccesskey
  aws_secret_access_key=thesecretaccesskeyvalue
  

  for gce cloud storage:

  {
         "type": "service_account",
         "project_id": "project-id",
         "private_key_id": "key-id",
         "private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nprivate-key\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
         "client_email": "service-account-email",
         "client_id": "client-id",
         "auth_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth",
         "token_uri": "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/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/service-account-email"
  }
  

• Usage with s3 custom url endpoint. It is possible to use vmrestore with s3 api compatible storages, like minio, cloudian and other. You have to add custom url endpoint with a flag:

  # for minio:
  -customS3Endpoint=http://localhost:9000

  # for aws gov region
  -customS3Endpoint=https://s3-fips.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com

• Run vmrestore -help in order to see all the available options:

  -concurrency int
    	The number of concurrent workers. Higher concurrency may reduce restore duration (default 10)
  -configFilePath string
    	Path to file with S3 configs. Configs are loaded from default location if not set.
    	See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-security-credentials.html
  -configProfile string
    	Profile name for S3 configs. If no set, the value of the environment variable will be loaded (AWS_PROFILE or AWS_DEFAULT_PROFILE), or if both not set, DefaultSharedConfigProfile is used
  -credsFilePath string
    	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
  -customS3Endpoint string
    	Custom S3 endpoint for use with S3-compatible storages (e.g. MinIO). S3 is used if not set
  -envflag.enable
    	Whether to enable reading flags from environment variables additionally to command line. Command line flag values have priority over values from environment vars. Flags are read only from command line if this flag isn't set
  -envflag.prefix string
    	Prefix for environment variables if -envflag.enable is set
  -fs.disableMmap
    	Whether to use pread() instead of mmap() for reading data files. By default mmap() is used for 64-bit arches and pread() is used for 32-bit arches, since they cannot read data files bigger than 2^32 bytes in memory. mmap() is usually faster for reading small data chunks than pread()
  -loggerDisableTimestamps
    	Whether to disable writing timestamps in logs
  -loggerErrorsPerSecondLimit int
    	Per-second limit on the number of ERROR messages. If more than the given number of errors are emitted per second, then the remaining errors are suppressed. Zero value disables the rate limit
  -loggerFormat string
    	Format for logs. Possible values: default, json (default "default")
  -loggerLevel string
    	Minimum level of errors to log. Possible values: INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL, PANIC (default "INFO")
  -loggerOutput string
    	Output for the logs. Supported values: stderr, stdout (default "stderr")
  -loggerTimezone string
    	Timezone to use for timestamps in logs. Timezone must be a valid IANA Time Zone. For example: America/New_York, Europe/Berlin, Etc/GMT+3 or Local (default "UTC")
  -loggerWarnsPerSecondLimit int
    	Per-second limit on the number of WARN messages. If more than the given number of warns are emitted per second, then the remaining warns are suppressed. Zero value disables the rate limit
  -maxBytesPerSecond value
    	The maximum download speed. There is no limit if it is set to 0
    	Supports the following optional suffixes for values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
  -memory.allowedBytes value
    	Allowed size of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. This option overrides -memory.allowedPercent if set to non-zero value. Too low value may increase cache miss rate, which usually results in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high value may evict too much data from OS page cache, which will result in higher disk IO usage
    	Supports the following optional suffixes for values: KB, MB, GB, KiB, MiB, GiB (default 0)
  -memory.allowedPercent float
    	Allowed percent of system memory VictoriaMetrics caches may occupy. See also -memory.allowedBytes. Too low value may increase cache miss rate, which usually results in higher CPU and disk IO usage. Too high value may evict too much data from OS page cache, which will result in higher disk IO usage (default 60)
  -skipBackupCompleteCheck
    	Whether to skip checking for 'backup complete' file in -src. This may be useful for restoring from old backups, which were created without 'backup complete' file
  -src string
    	Source path with backup on the remote storage. Example: gcs://bucket/path/to/backup/dir, s3://bucket/path/to/backup/dir or fs:///path/to/local/backup/dir
  -storageDataPath string
    	Destination path where backup must be restored. VictoriaMetrics must be stopped when restoring from backup. -storageDataPath dir can be non-empty. In this case the contents of -storageDataPath dir is synchronized with -src contents, i.e. it works like 'rsync --delete' (default "victoria-metrics-data")
  -version
    	Show VictoriaMetrics version

How to build from sources

It is recommended using binary releases - see vmutils-* archives there.

Development build

1. Install Go. The minimum supported version is Go 1.13.
2. Run make vmrestore from the root folder of the repository. It builds vmrestore binary and puts it into the bin folder.

Production build

1. Install docker.
2. Run make vmrestore-prod from the root folder of the repository. It builds vmrestore-prod binary and puts it into the bin folder.

Building docker images

Run make package-vmrestore. It builds victoriametrics/vmrestore:<PKG_TAG> docker image locally. <PKG_TAG> is auto-generated image tag, which depends on source code in the repository. The <PKG_TAG> may be manually set via PKG_TAG=foobar make package-vmrestore.

The base docker image is alpine but it is possible to use any other base image by setting it via <ROOT_IMAGE> environment variable. For example, the following command builds the image on top of scratch image:

ROOT_IMAGE=scratch make package-vmrestore