Backup and Restore

CloudVision Portal (CVP) enables you to backup and restore the complete CVP provisioning dataset, including containers, devices, configlets, images, and configlet / image assignments. You can use commands to backup and restore CVP data.

Arista provides a simple script at /cvpi/tools/backup.py which is scheduled by default to run daily to backup CVP data, and retain the last 5 backups in /data/cvpbackup/. Backing up and restoring data saves information about the CVP instance to a tgz file, and then restores the information from the tgz file to a new CVP instance. The CVP commands provide all of the functionality required to complete backup and restore operations.

Note: It is a good practice to regularly create and export backups to ensure that you have an adequate supply of backup files available to you that you can use to restore CVP data.
Note: There is no backup or restore of the Telemetry analytics dataset.

The current CVP release does not support restoring backups taken from previous CVP releases. If you would like to restore a backup from a previous CVP release, install the previous release, restore the backup, and then upgrade to the current release. After you have successfully upgraded to the current release, take another backup so that you can directly restore that into current main release in the future.

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Requirements for Multi-node Installations

The basic requirements for backup and restore operations are the same for single-node installations and multi-node installations.

Using CVPI Commands to Backup and Restore CV-CUE Data

Arista recommends to back up wifimanager regularly and especially before performing any upgrades.

Restore CV-CUE Data

You can restore wifimanager from a backup using the cvpi restore wifimanager </path/to/backup/file> command.

Figure 1. Restore CV-CUE Data
Note: For a CV cluster, you can run this command only on the primary node. If no backup was carried out before the upgrade, you can use a scheduled backup under the /data/wifimanager/data/data/backup directory to restore wifimanager.

RMA

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Note: Back up wifimanager on any node before submitting it for an RMA. When the node is re-deployed post-RMA, you can restore earlier wifimanager data from a backup that you have stored elsewhere.

Using CVPI Commands to Backup and Restore CVP Provisioning Data

Backup and restore are CVPI functionalities of CVPI components.

Note:

The default directory to save and restore backup data files is /data/cvpbackup.

The default directory for backup/restore log files is /cvpi/logs/cvpbackup.

The default directory for temporary files during backup/restore is /data/tmp/cvpbackup.

The following commands are used to backup and then restore the containers, devices, configlets, images, and configlet or image assignments that are defined in CVP.

Note: When restoring devices, use the username and password that can access the devices being registered.
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Backup CVP Provisioning Data

Use the cvpi backup command for saving a copy of CVP data as backup.
cvpi backup cvp
Note: To check the progress of the backup, read the latest backup_cvp.*.log file in /cvpi/logs/cvpbackup.
This command creates the backup files for the CVP component.
[cvp@cvp108 bin]$ cvpi backup cvp

Restore CVP Provisioning Data

Use the cvpi restore command to restore backup files for the CVP component.
cvpi restore cvp cvp.timestamp.tgz eosimages.timestamp.tgz

The cvp.<timestamp>.tgz parameter contains provisioning data from the DataBase (DB) of the CVP application. The cvp.eosimages.<timestamp>.tgz parameter contains EOS images and extensions stored in the DataBase (DB) of the CVP application.

Note: To check the progress of the restore, read the latest restore_cvp.*.log file in /cvpi/logs/cvpbackup.
This command restores the backup files of the CVP component.
[cvp@cvp108 bin]$ cvpi restore cvp cvp.2019.1.0.tgz cvp.eosimages.2019.1.0.tgz
Note:

To check the progress of the backup, tail -f/cvpi/logs/cvpbackup/backup_cvp.20190606020011.log.

CVP backup creates two backup files in the /data/cvpbackup directory for restoration. The eosimages.tgz is generated only when it differs from the currently available copy of the eosimages.tgz, and is an optional parameter for restore if the CVP system already contains the same EOS image.

The cvpi backup command can be run anytime and does not disrupt the cvp application. However, the cvpi restore command will stop the cvp application and disrupt the service for the duration of the restore. If the restore is from a backup on a different CVP system to a new CVP system, it may also be required to on-board the EOS devices or restart the Terminattr daemons on the EOS devices after the restore.

Troubleshooting CVP Restore Failure of Provisioning Data

If the cvpbackup directory does not exist in /data when copying the restore files to a newly built VM, you must create it and assign the ownership to the cvp user and group in either of the following two ways:

  • Login as cvp user and create the cvpbackup directory

    Use the su cvp command to login as cvp user and the mkdir -p /data/cvpbackup command to create the cvpbackup directory.

  • Create the folder as root and change the ownership

    Use the mkdir -p /data/cvpbackup command to create the folder as root and the chown -R cvp:cvp /data/cvpbackup/ command to change the ownership of cvpbackup directory and its files to cvp user and group.

Verifying the Ownership of cvpbackup Directory

Use one of the following commands to verify the ownership of cvpbackup directory:

  • ls

    This example verifies the ownership of cvpbackup directory using the ls command.

    [root@cvp-2019 data]# ls -l /data/ | grep cvpbackup
drwxrwxr-x. 2 cvp cvp 236 Mar 16 02:01 cvpbackup

  • stat

    This example verifies the ownership of cvpbackup directory using the stat command.

    [root@cvp-2019 data]# stat /data/cvpbackup/ | grep Access
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x) Uid: (10010/ cvp) Gid: (10010/ cvp)

Verifying the Ownership of Files Inside the cvpbackup Directory

The following example verifies the ownership of files inside the cvpbackup directory using the ls command:

[root@cvp-2019 data]# ls -l /data/cvpbackup
total 18863972
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cvp cvp 6650171 Mar 14 02:01 cvp.20200314020004.tgz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 cvp cvp 9642441292 Mar 14 02:08 cvp.eosimages.20200314020002.tgz

Correcting the Ownership of cvpbackup Directory Files

Use the chown command to correct the ownership of cvpbackup directory files.

chown cvp:cvp cvp.<timestamp>.tgz cvp.eosimages.<timestamp>.tgz

The cvp.<timestamp>.tgz parameter contains provisioning data from the DataBase (DB) of the CVP application. The cvp.eosimages.<timestamp>.tgz parameter contains EOS images and extensions stored in the DataBase (DB) of the CVP application.

This example changes the ownership of all cvpbackup directory files.

[root@cvp-2019 data]# chown cvp:cvp cvp.20200319020002.tgz cvp.eosimages.20200314020002.tgz