[Engine-devel] Backing up the DB

[Yair Zaslavsky]

On 04/03/2012 11:10 PM, Douglas Landgraf wrote:
> On 04/03/2012 05:10 AM, Livnat Peer wrote:
>> On 03/04/12 12:05, Eli Mesika wrote:

Eli - maybe we can take the script of Douglas and add it to the git repo?

>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Douglas Landgraf" <dougsland at redhat.com>
>>>> To: "Adam Litke" <agl at us.ibm.com>
>>>> Cc: engine-devel at ovirt.org, "Douglas Landgraf" <dlandgra at redhat.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 6:19:23 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] Backing up the DB
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 04/02/2012 09:20 AM, Adam Litke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have a working development environment for ovirt-engine and I want
>>>> to verify
>>>> someone else's gerrit change.  Is there a documented proceedure for
>>>> backing up
>>>> the engine db so that, after checking out the new code and updating
>>>> the db
>>>> schema, I can revert to my old code and DB (schema and data).
>>> You can use pg_dump for backup and psql for restore :
>>>
>>> backup:
>>> pg_dump -C -E UTF8  --column-inserts --disable-dollar-quoting  --disable-triggers -U postgres --format=p -f <backupfile>  <dbname>
>>>
>>> restore:
>>> psql -U postgres -f <backupfile>  template1
>>>
>>>
>> Eli,
>> Can we have a script for backup and restore DB in the repo?
>>
>> I see we have backup_db.sql any use of it?
>>
> If you guys are interested, I have updated the tool to work with
> systemctl/enginedb and tested under Fedora 16:
> 
> Here my use:
> 
> # mkdir /engine-backup-db
> # chmod +x engine-db-tool.py
> 
> backup manually
> =============
>  ./engine-db-tool.py --backup --path=/engine-db-backup
> Stopping jboss-as service...
> Backuping database:
> /engine-db-backup/dump_RHEVDB_BACKUP_2012-04-03-15:05.sql
> Starting jboss-as service...
> Done
> 
> 
> restore manually
> =============
> # ./engine-db-tool.py --restore
> --path=/engine-db-backup/dump_RHEVDB_BACKUP_2012-04-03-15:05.sql
> Stopping jboss-as service...
> Restoring database:
> /engine-db-backup/dump_RHEVDB_BACKUP_2012-04-03-15:05.sql
> Starting jboss-as service...
> Done
> 
> 
> Crontab
> =======
> # crontab -e  (adding to my crontab user)
> 
> # Every day 18:00 backup db
> 00 18 * * * /path-to/engine-db-tool.py --backup --path=/engine-backup-db
> 
> 
> Download:
> https://raw.github.com/dougsland/misc-rhev/master/engine-db-tool.py
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> Douglas
> 
> 
> 
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