exobackup

Exoscale VM offsite backup

Install

You must use jq, rclone and exo.

You must use rclone version ≥ 1.50.

Setup

• Setup exo with API keys
• Setup rclone remote config

Checks:

$ exo vm list
┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼
│                  ID                  │                  NAME                   │ SIZE  │  ZONE   │  STATE  │   IP ADDRESS    │
┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼
│ xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx │ VM-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx │ Micro │ ch-dk-2 │ Stopped │ XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX │
┼──────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────────────┼

$ rclone lsd my_rclone_remote:
          -1 2021-07-22 12:43:49        -1 my-bucket-or-folder

Features

• Create snapshot from VM
• Transform snapshots to runnable VM image
• Exporting (thanks rclone) to another places (S3, Google Drive...)
• Purge old snapashots/backups
• Push snapshot metadata if rclone remote config is S3

Exemple

Backup VM to one target:

./exobackup.sh myvmid rclone_remote:my/target/directory

Backup VM to many targets:

./exobackup.sh myvmid rclone_remote:my/target/directory rclone_remote_alt:my/another/directory

Environment variables

Paths

• EXO_PATH
• RCLONE_PATH

Exoscale related

• EXOSCALE_ACCOUNT: Exoscale account, if many accounts are used. Check exo config list.
• EXOSCALE_SNAPSHOTS_RETENTION_DAYS

Rclone config

• RCLONE_DELETE_MIN_AGE (see rclone documentation)
• RCLONE_EXTRA_FLAGS: add flags to rclone

License

MIT

Author Information

• Emilien Mantel for TripleStack