Backup/Restore tools for clients using WAP

What database and file backup tools are people using to give clients access to make their own databases and websites?
The same question goes for giving them the ability restore databases to the servers?
Simon Holman
Expeed Technology
Australian Web Hosting

I ended up utilising MyLittleBackup and it will run external to WAP for now.
Simon Holman
Expeed Technology
Australian Web Hosting

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Monitoring and backup/restore tools for TT databases

Hi there,
I am new to TimesTen. I need to set up automatic monitoring for TT databases. Are there any tools available? Also would like to know if there are any tools for tracking backups for these datastores.
Any standards & best practices for managing TimesTen environment available?
Appreciate any help/advise.
Regards

Hi Vidya,
You did not mention what type of Unix/Linux you are using or what version of TimesTen. I will assume it is a mainstream Unix (Solaris, HP/UX or similar) or Linux (RedHat, SuSE etc.) and a recent (6.0 or 7.0) version of TimesTen. I will also assume that you want to put everything back 'as is' after the rebuild (i.e. you are not upgrading TimesTen versions or changing anything else about the configuration). IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO UPGRADE TIMESTEN AS PART OF THE REBUILD THEN THE STEPS LISTED BELOW WILL NOT WORK 'AS IS' AND WILL NEED MODIFICATION.
Assuming that the machine is going to be 'wiped' during the rebuild then the main things you need to preserve are:
1. Kernel parameter and other system level configuratiopn for TimesTen and indeed any other software running on the box. You would do this by taking copies of the relevant system configuration files and re-applying the customisations after the rebuild. As well as kernel parameters this might include things like users and groups.
2. The port numbers used by each installed TimesTen instance. You can find these out from the ttVersion and ttStatus commands in each instance. Make a note of these as you will need them afterwards for re-installation.
3. TimesTen configuration files for each installed TimesTen instance. You may have multiple TimesTen instances of the same or different versions installed. You can find out by looking at
the file /etc/TimesTen/instance_info which contains details of every TimesTen installation (instance) on the machine. The instance configuration files are found in <install_dir>/info and are called; ttendaemon.options, sys.odbc.ini, sys.ttconnect.ini, snmp.ini and ttpasswd. You should make safe copies of all these files for each instance.
4. Any user configuration files that e.g. configure TimesTen environment variables and any user ODBC configuration files such as .odbc.ini in user's home directory.
5. Any datastores (databases) that you need to preserve across the rebuild. For each of these, take a backup of the datastore using the TimesTen ttBackup command and preserve the output files/directories. You need to do this separately for each datastore in each TimesTen instance.
After you have secured the above then you should be okay to do the rebuild. After the rebuild you should:
a) Re-apply all system level config changes (kernel parameters, users, groups etc.) preserved from (see step 1 above).
b) Re-install all required TimesTen instances into the same installation directories, and using the same port numbers, as they had previous to the rebuild (see step 2 above). The installations should be performed as the same user as the original installatuions (the ttVersion output from step 2 above would tell you that). Prior to performing the installation you would need a sysadmin to create the /etc/TimesTen directory and assign suitable permissiosn to it (see TimesTen installation Guide for more details).
c) Re-instate the saved TimesTen configuration files for each instance (see step 3 above).
d) Re-instate any user level configuration files (see step 4 above).
e) Re-create any datastore directories as required ready to receive the restored datastores (check datastore and log file paths in ODBC configuration files).
f) Restore the datastore backup directories (created in step 5 above) to somewhere on disk.
g) Use ttRestore in each instance to restore each datastore from the backup files restored in step (f) above. This re-creates all your datastores with all their data etc.
If you follow this procedure and are not doing anything like changing TimesTen major versions (e.g. 6.0 -> 7.0) as part of the rebuild then you should not need to relink any application binaries. If for some reason you want to relink any application binaries you should consult the application developers who should have suitable makefiles to do this.
I think this is pretty complete but of course it is possible there are additional things specific to your installation or operational regime of which I am unaware and so of course we can not accept any responsibility for any errors or omissions...
I will send you the document on monitoring TimesTen via your e-mail address.
Chris

Backpac: A package state snapshot and restore tool for Arch Linux

backpac:
A package state snapshot and restore tool for Arch Linux with config file save/restore support.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52957
https://github.com/altercation/backpac (see readme on the github repository for more information)
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It's a common method of setting up a single system: take some notes about what packages you've installed, what files you've modified.
Backpac creates those notes for you and helps back up important configuration files. Specifically, backpac does the following:
maintains a list of installed groups (based on 80% of group packages being installed)
maintains a list of packages (including official and aur packages, listed separately)
maintains a list of files (manually created)
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Use Cases
Ongoing system state backup to github
Quick install of new system from existing backpac config
Conform current system to given state in backpac config
Backpac is a very, very lightweight way of saving and restoring system state.
It's not intended for rolling out and maintaining multiple similar systems, it's designed to assist individual users in the maintainance of their own Arch Linux box.
Status
Alpha, release for testing among those interested. Passing all tests right now but will continue to rework and refine. Bug reports needed.
Why?
There are a lot of 'big-iron' solutions to maintaining, backing up and restoring system state. Setting these up for a single system or a handful of personal systems has always seemed like overkill.
There are also some existing pacman list making utilities around, but most of them seem to list either all packages or don't separate the official and aur packages the way I wanted. Some detect group install state, some don't. I wanted all these features in backpac.
Finally, whatever tool I use, I'd like it to be simple (c.f. the Arch Way). Lists that are produced should be human readable, human maintainable and not different from what I'm using in non-automated form. Backpac fulfills these requirements.
Regarding files, I wanted to be able to backup arbitrary system files to a git repository. Tools like etckeeper are interesting but non /etc files in that case aren't backed up (without some link trickery) and there isn't any automatic integration with pacman, so there is no current advantage to using a tool like that. I also like making an explicit list of files to snapshot.
Sample Output
This is the command line report. Additionally, backpac saves this information to the backpac groups, packages and files lists and the files snapshot directory.
$ backpac -Qf
backpac
(-b) Backups ON; Files will be saved in place with backup suffix.
-f Force mode ON; No prompts presented (CAUTION).
(-F) Full Force mode OFF; Prompt displayed before script runs.
(-g) Suppress group check OFF; Groups will be checked for currency.
(-h) Display option and usage summary.
(-p) Default backpac: /home/es/.config/backpac/tau.
-Q Simple Query ON; Report shown; no changes made to system.
(-R) Auto-Remove OFF; Remove/Uninstall action default to NO.
(-S) System update OFF; No system files will be updated.
(-U) backpac config update OFF; backpac files will not be updated.
Sourcing from backpac config directory: /home/es/.config/backpac/tau
Initializing.................Done
GROUPS
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/home/es/.config/backpac/tau/groups
GROUPS UP TO DATE: group listed in backpac and >80% local install:
base base-devel xfce4 xorg xorg-apps xorg-drivers xorg-fonts
GROUP PACKAGES; MISSING?: group member packages not installed:
(base: nano)
(xfce4: thunar xfdesktop)
PACKAGES
============================================================================
/home/es/.config/backpac/tau/packages
PACKAGES UP TO DATE: packages listed in backpac also installed on system:
acpi acpid acpitool aif alsa-utils augeas cowsay cpufrequtils curl dialog
firefox gamin git ifplugd iw mesa mesa-demos mutt netcfg openssh rfkill
rsync rxvt-unicode sudo terminus-font vim wpa_actiond wpa_supplicant_gui
xmobar xorg-server-utils xorg-twm xorg-utils xorg-xclock xorg-xinit xterm
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AUR UP TO DATE: aur packages listed in backpac also installed on system:
flashplugin-beta freetype2-git-infinality git-annex haskell-json
package-query-git packer wpa_auto xmonad-contrib-darcs xmonad-darcs
AUR NOT IN backpac: installed aur packages not listed in backpac config:
yaourt-git
FILES
============================================================================
/home/es/.config/backpac/tau/files
MATCHES ON SYSTEM/CONFIG:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/etc/acpi/handler.sh
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/rc.local

firecat53 wrote:I think your plan for handling an AUR_HELPER is good. If AUR_HELPER is defined by the user, then either you might need a list of major AUR helpers and their command line switches so you can pick the correct switch for what needs to be done (most use some variation of -S for installing, but not all), or have the user define the correct switch(es) somehow for their chosen AUR helper.
That's a good idea. I'll add that to my AUR refactoring todo.
I also found directory tracking to be a weakness in other dotfile managers that I tried. I think you would definitely have to recursively list out the contents of a tracked directory and deal with each file individually. Wildcard support would be nice...I just haven't personally found a use case for it yet.
I've been thinking that I could just add the directory and scan through it for any non-default attribute files. If those are found then they get automatically added to the files list. That's pretty close to what etckeeper does.
Edit: I just compiled the dev version and removed my comments for already fixed things...sorry!
The master branch should have those fixes as well, but I didn't update the version number in the package build. I'll have to do that.
1. Still apparently didn't handle the escaped space for this item: (the file does exist on my system)
Ok, good to know. This wildcard directory business will require some new code and refactoring so I'll also rework my filenames handling.
2. Suggestion: you should make that awesome README into a man page!
I was working on one (the pkgbuild has a commented out line for the man page) but I had to leave it for later. Definitely want a man page. Once this stabilizes and I'm sure there aren't any big structural changes, I'll convert it to man format.
3. Suggestion: add the word 'dotfile' into your description somewhere on this page, the github page, and in the package description so people looking for dotfile managers will find it. You could also consider modularizing the script into a dotfile manager and the package manager, so people on other distros could take advantage of your dotfile management scheme.
I actually have a different script for dotfile management that doesn't touch packages, but there is definitely overlap with this one. That script isn't released yet, though, and if people find this useful for dotfile management that's great. I'll add that in.
4. Suggestion: since -Q is a read-only operation, why not just make it run with -f automatically to avoid the prompt?
Originally, running backpac without any command line options produced the Query output. I was concerned that since it is a utility that can potentially overwrite system files, it is important to give users a clear statement prior to execution about what will be done. Since the Query output is essentially the same as the Update and System reports in format and content, I wanted to be explicit about the Query being a passive no-change operation. The current command line options aren't set in stone though. If you feel strongly about it being different, let me know.
Long answer to a short question
5. Another suggestion: any thought to providing some sort of 'scrub' function to remove private information from the stored files if desired? This would be cool for publishing public dotfiles to github. Perhaps a credentials file (I did this with python for my own configs). Probably detecting email addresses and passwords without a scrub file would be rather difficult because dotfiles come in so many flavors.
Yes, absolutely. In fact, if you look at the lib/local file (pretty sure it's in both master and dev branches in this state) you'll see some references to a sanitize function. The idea there is that the user will list out bash associative arrays like this:
SANITIZE_WPA_=(
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[CMD]='sed s/expungepattern/sanitizedoutput/g'
Question: am I missing an obvious option to remove a file from the files.d directory if I delete it from the files list? Or do I have to delete it manually? It might be helpful to add a section to the README on how to update and delete dotfiles from being tracked, and also a more detailed description of what the -b option does (and what is actually created when it's not used).
You are only missing the function I didn't finish. There should be either dummy code or a TODO in the backpac main script referencing garbage collection, which isn't difficult but I just haven't finished it. The idea being another loop of "hey I found these old files in your files.d, mind if I delete them?" It's on my list and I'll try to get it in asap.
And finally, just out of curiosity, why did you choose to actually copy the files instead of symlink like so many other dotfile managers do?
git not following symlinks, hardlinks also out for permissions issues (git wouldn't be able to read the files, change them, etc.)
I definitely would prefer to not make an entire copy of the file, but I haven't come up with a better option. Shout with ideas, though. Also, if there is a way around the link issues I noted above, let me know. I don't see one but that doesn't mean it's not there.
edit: I think a Seattle area Arch meetup would be cool! Perhaps coffee someplace? Bellevue? U-district? Anyone else? BYOPOL (bring your own pimped out laptop)
A general meetup sounds good. I was also thinking it would be fun to do a mini archcon with some demos.

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Last edited by marazmista (2013-07-31 22:45:13)

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The clients connect fine, but they are getting the incorrect default gateway during the address assignment.
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