Backup and Restore Applications
Backup Wordpress
Go to Kasten dashboard
Click on Applications
As we installed our Wordpress application in the
defaultnamespace, select thedefaultnamespace, click on the three dots to expose the menu.Select the Create a Policy option
In the New Policy window, leave the policy name as default-backup
Select on Enable Backups via Snapshot Exports
Make sure Export Location Profile is point to ntnx-object location profile we created before
Leave everything else as is and click on Create Policy at the bottom of the window.
Under default-backup policy, click on Run Once
Confirm by clicking on Yes, Continue
Return to Kasten dashboard
Under Actions, click on the Policy Run for default-backup policy
You will see the details as follows (it will take a few minutes for the backup to run)
Once the backup is finished, you will see that the default namespace/application is Compliant under Dashboard > Applications
You can go to Prism Central > Tasks to see snapshots tasks requested by Kasten
The volumesnapshot object we created along with other Objects in Nutanix CSI provider has enabled us to do this snapshot and backup
You have completed backup, now let us move on to simulating data loss and restore operations.
Simulating Data Loss
Go to the Wordpress applications Web UI in the other browser tab.
Click on Users menu
Hover your mouse prompt over the admin_1 user
You will see the Delete menu
Click on Delete
Click on Confirm Deletion
Restoring Wordpress Application
Browse to your Kasten dashboard
Click on the 1 Compliant part in Applications
Select the three dots to expose the menu and click on Restore
You will see two restore points and be asked to Select an Instance
- Restore from backup (this will restore from Nutanix DFS snapshot)
- Restore from export (this will restore from Objects stores xyz-k10 bucket)
Select the EXPORTED one to ntnx-objects
Click on Deselect All Artifacts
Select only the PVC and Deployments as shown here
- PVC - mysql-pv-claim
- PVC - wp-pv-claim
- Deployments - wordpress
- Deployments - wordpress-mysql
Click on Restore and Restore again in the confirmation Windows
Return to the Kasten Dashboard to monitor the progress
Go to your ssh shell and execute the following command to observe the pods
oc get po -n default -w# Output here
# The wordpress and mysql pod will be terminated
# Some restore operation pods will get created
# Data will be restored
# Wordpress and mysql pod will be created
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
wordpress-9c5b954c6-bpblk 1/1 Running 0 5h27m
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-r4b5r 1/1 Running 0 5h27m
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-r4b5r 1/1 Terminating 0 5h28m
wordpress-9c5b954c6-bpblk 1/1 Terminating 0 5h28m
wordpress-9c5b954c6-bpblk 0/1 Terminating 0 5h28m
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-r4b5r 0/1 Terminating 0 5h28m
wordpress-9c5b954c6-bpblk 0/1 Terminating 0 5h28m
wordpress-9c5b954c6-bpblk 0/1 Terminating 0 5h28m
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-r4b5r 0/1 Terminating 0 5h28m
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-r4b5r 0/1 Terminating 0 5h28m
affinity-pod-1 0/1 Pending 0 0s
affinity-pod-1 0/1 Pending 0 0s
affinity-pod-0 0/1 Pending 0 0s
affinity-pod-0 0/1 Pending 0 0s
affinity-pod-1 0/1 Pending 0 8s
affinity-pod-0 0/1 Pending 0 8s
affinity-pod-1 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 8s
affinity-pod-0 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 8s
affinity-pod-0 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 19s
affinity-pod-1 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 20s
affinity-pod-0 1/1 Running 0 20s
affinity-pod-1 1/1 Running 0 21s
affinity-pod-1 1/1 Terminating 0 25s
affinity-pod-0 1/1 Terminating 0 25s
restore-data-6p96k 0/1 Pending 0 0s
restore-data-6p96k 0/1 Pending 0 0s
restore-data-6p96k 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 0s
restore-data-4887h 0/1 Pending 0 0s
restore-data-4887h 0/1 Pending 0 0s
restore-data-4887h 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 1s
restore-data-6p96k 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 3s
restore-data-6p96k 1/1 Running 0 4s
restore-data-6p96k 1/1 Terminating 0 8s
restore-data-4887h 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 8s
restore-data-4887h 1/1 Running 0 10s
restore-data-4887h 1/1 Terminating 0 16s
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-d4djd 0/1 Pending 0 0s
wordpress-9c5b954c6-qmq86 0/1 Pending 0 0s
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-d4djd 0/1 Pending 0 0s
wordpress-9c5b954c6-qmq86 0/1 Pending 0 0s
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-d4djd 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 0s
wordpress-9c5b954c6-qmq86 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 0s
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-d4djd 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 3s
wordpress-9c5b954c6-qmq86 0/1 ContainerCreating 0 7s
affinity-pod-0 0/1 Terminating 0 59s
wordpress-mysql-77756785c8-d4djd 1/1 Running 0 10s #<< restored wordpress
affinity-pod-1 0/1 Terminating 0 59s
wordpress-9c5b954c6-qmq86 1/1 Running 0 11s #<< restored mysql
affinity-pod-1 0/1 Terminating 0 63s
affinity-pod-1 0/1 Terminating 0 63s
affinity-pod-0 0/1 Terminating 0 63s
affinity-pod-0 0/1 Terminating 0 63s
restore-data-6p96k 0/1 Terminating 0 40s
restore-data-6p96k 0/1 Terminating 0 47s
restore-data-6p96k 0/1 Terminating 0 47s
restore-data-4887h 0/1 Terminating 0 48sGo back to Kasten Web UI and you will see restore completing successfully
Login to Wordpress GUI to check if the deleted user is now present
You have succesfully restored the lost account.
Takeaways
- Applications hosted on OCP on Nutanix can be backed up to Nutanix Objects/Files
- Nutanix provides Infrastructure for OCP workloads
- Nutanix provides Objects/Files storage for backup workloads