collective.recipe.backup 0.4

bin/backup script: sensible defaults around bin/repozo

Contents

• Detailed Documentation

  • Example usage

    • Backup

    • Restore

    • Snapshots

  • Supported options

• Contributors

• Change history

  • 0.4 (2008-08-19)

  • 0.3.1 (2008-07-04)

  • 0.2 (2008-07-03)

  • 0.1 (2008-07-03)

bin/repozo is a zope script to make backups of your Data.fs. Looking up the settings can be a chore. And you have to pick a directory where to put the backups. This recipe provides sensible defaults for your common backup tasks. Making backups a piece of cake is important!

• bin/backup makes a backup.

• bin/restore restores the latest backup.

• bin/snapshotbackup makes a full backup, separate from the regular backups. Handy for copying the current production database to your laptop or right before a big change in the site.

Some extra information:

• Code repository: https://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/buildout/collective.recipe.backup

• Questions and comments to mailto:[e-mail]

Detailed Documentation

Example usage

The simplest way to use it to add a part in buildout.cfg like this:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = backup
...
... [backup]
... recipe = collective.recipe.backup
... """)

Running the buildout adds a backup, snapshotbackup and restore scripts to the bin/ directory and, by default, it creates the var/backups and var/snapshotbackups dirs:

>>> print system(buildout) # doctest:+ELLIPSIS
Installing backup.
backup: Created /sample-buildout/var/backups
backup: Created /sample-buildout/var/snapshotbackups
Getting distribution for 'zc.recipe.egg'.
Got zc.recipe.egg 1.0.0.
Generated script '/sample-buildout/bin/backup'.
Generated script '/sample-buildout/bin/snapshotbackup'.
Generated script '/sample-buildout/bin/restore'.
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>>> ls('var')
d  backups
d  snapshotbackups
>>> ls('bin')
-  backup
-  buildout
-  restore
-  snapshotbackup

Backup

Calling bin/backup results in a normal repozo backup. We put in place a mock repozo script that prints the options it is passed (and make it executable). It is horridly unix-specific at the moment.

>>> import sys
>>> write('bin', 'repozo',
...       "#!%s\nimport sys\nprint ' '.join(sys.argv[1:])" % sys.executable)
>>> #write('bin', 'repozo', "#!/bin/sh\necho $*")
>>> dontcare = system('chmod u+x bin/repozo')

By default, backups are done in var/backups:

>>> print system('bin/backup')
--backup -f /sample-buildout/var/filestorage/Data.fs -r /sample-buildout/var/backups
INFO: Backing up database file: ...

You can also tell the backup to be more quiet with --quiet or -q. That is useful at least for cronjobs. Warnings or errors are still shown. In our case the mock repozo script still prints something:

>>> print system('bin/backup --quiet')
--backup -f /sample-buildout/var/filestorage/Data.fs -r /sample-buildout/var/backups

Restore

You can restore the very latest backup with bin/restore:

>>> print system('bin/restore')
--recover -o /sample-buildout/var/filestorage/Data.fs -r /sample-buildout/var/backups
INFO: Restoring...

You can also restore the backup as of a certain date. Just pass a date argument. According to repozo: specify UTC (not local) time. The format is yyyy-mm-dd[-hh[-mm[-ss]]].

>>> print system('bin/restore 1972-12-25')
--recover -o /sample-buildout/var/filestorage/Data.fs -r /sample-buildout/var/backups -D 1972-12-25
INFO: Date restriction: restoring state at 1972-12-25.
INFO: Restoring...

Snapshots

For quickly grabbing the current state of a production database so you can download it to your development laptop, you want a full backup. But you shouldn’t interfere with the regular backup regime. Likewise, a quick backup just before updating the production server is a good idea. For that, the bin/snapshotbackup is great. It places a full backup in, by default, var/snapshotbackups.

>>> print system('bin/snapshotbackup')
--backup -f /sample-buildout/var/filestorage/Data.fs -r /sample-buildout/var/snapshotbackups -F
INFO: Making snapshot backup:...

Supported options

The recipe supports the following options, none of which are needed by default. The most common one to change is location, as that allows you to place your backups in some system-wide directory like /var/zopebackups/instancename/.

location

Location where backups are stored. Defaults to var/backups inside the buildout directory.

keep

Number of full backups to keep. Defaults to 2, which means that the current and the previous full backup are kept. Older backups are removed, including their incremental backups. Set it to 0 to keep all backups.

datafs

In case the Data.fs isn’t in the default var/filestorage/Data.fs location, this option can overwrite it.

full

By default, incremental backups are made. If this option is set to ‘true’, bin/backup will always make a full backup.

debug

In rare cases when you want to know exactly what’s going on, set debug to ‘true’ to get debug level logging of the recipe itself. Repozo is also run with --verbose if this option is enabled.

snapshotlocation

Location where snapshot defaults are stored. Defaults to var/snapshotbackups inside the buildout directory.

gzip

Use repozo’s zipping functionality. ‘false’ by default. Set it to ‘true’ and repozo will gzip its files. Note that *.fs becomes *.fsz, not *.fs.gz.

We’ll use all options:

>>> write('buildout.cfg',
... """
... [buildout]
... parts = backup
...
... [backup]
... recipe = collective.recipe.backup
... location = /backups/myproject
... keep = 3
... datafs = subfolder/myproject.fs
... full = true
... debug = true
... snapshotlocation = snap/my
... gzip = true
... """)
>>> print system(buildout) # doctest:+ELLIPSIS
Uninstalling backup.
Installing backup.
backup: Created /sample-buildout/snap/my
Generated script '/sample-buildout/bin/backup'.
Generated script '/sample-buildout/bin/snapshotbackup'.
Generated script '/sample-buildout/bin/restore'.
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Backups are now stored in /backups/myproject and the Data.fs location is handled correctly despite being a relative link:

>>> print system('bin/backup')
--backup -f /sample-buildout/subfolder/myproject.fs -r /backups/myproject -F --verbose --gzip
INFO: Backing up database file: ...

The same is true for the snapshot backup.

>>> print system('bin/snapshotbackup')
--backup -f /sample-buildout/subfolder/myproject.fs -r /sample-buildout/snap/my -F --verbose --gzip
INFO: Making snapshot backup:...

Contributors

collective.recipe.backup is basically a port of ye olde instancemanager’s backup functionality. That backup functionality was coded mostly by Reinout van Rees and Maurits van Rees, both from Zest software

Creating the buildout recipe was done by Reinout.

Change history

0.4 (2008-08-19)

• Allowed the user to make the script more quiet (say in a cronjob) by using ‘bin/backup -q’ (or –quiet). [maurits]

• Refactored initialization template so it is easier to change. [maurits]

0.3.1 (2008-07-04)

• Added ‘gzip’ option, including changes to the cleanup functionality that treats .fsz also as a full backup like .fs. [reinout]

• Fixed typo: repoze is now repozo everywhere… [reinout]

0.2 (2008-07-03)

• Extra tests and documentation change for ‘keep’: the default is to keep 2 backups instead of all backups. [reinout]

• If debug=true, then repozo is also run in –verbose mode. [reinout]

0.1 (2008-07-03)

• Added bin/restore. [reinout]

• Added snapshot backups. [reinout]

• Enabled cleaning up of older backups. [reinout]

• First working version that runs repozo and that creates a backup dir if needed. [reinout]

• Started project based on zopeskel template. [reinout]