Gerrit backup

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/08/2011 01:55 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
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> On 12/07/2011 08:02 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
>> I did a first pass at creating a backup process for
>> gerrit.ovirt.org:
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>> http://ovirt.org/wiki/Gerrit_backup
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> This is now:
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> http://ovirt.org/wiki/Gerrit_server_backup
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> It includes the addition of a PostgreSQL database backup script. All
> the backups for this are found on the remote host (ovirt.org)
> /home/gerrit-backup.
>
> In testing I've run initial backups and copies to the remote host of
> the git repo and gerrit database; they'll also run tonight in a few
> hours (10 and 10:20 pm East coast time.)

seems like backing up the gerrit2 user home folder would help as well:
http://groups.google.com/group/repo-discuss/browse_thread/thread/9d7793201d8c4031

thanks,
    Itamar

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> - - Karsten
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>> Right now it uses rsync on /usr/local/src/git to a remote directory
>> at ovirt.org:/home/gerrit-backup/gerrit.ovirt.org-src-backup/src/
>> .
>>
>> So that's my hacky process and bash script to start. Very open to
>> other ideas.
>>
>> One I'm not clear on is what we really need backed up from
>> gerrit.ovirt.org? I'd like us to get /etc in a private git repo,
>> maybe we just do that as a single repo that we distribute across
>> all hosts' /root directories? Should we also be using git for
>> backing up the git repo - so have gerrit-backup on the remote host
>> pull changes instead of pushing a directory structure via rsync?
>>
>> Itamar mentions that we need to backup the Gerrit DB, which I'll
>> work on next. I reckon that's a combination of a dump of the
>> database and rsyncing the results to the remote host?
>>
>> - Karsten _______________________________________________ Infra
>> mailing list Infra at ovirt.org
>> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/infra
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