backup-bot-two/README.md

# Backupbot II

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_This Time, It's Easily Configurable_

Automatically take backups from all volumes of running Docker Swarm services and runs pre- and post commands.

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* **Category**: Utilities
* **Status**: 0, work-in-progress
* **Image**: [`thecoopcloud/backup-bot-two`](https://hub.docker.com/r/thecoopcloud/backup-bot-two), 4, upstream
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* **Backups**: N/A
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* **Tests**: No
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## Background

There are lots of Docker volume backup systems; all of them have one or both of these limitations:
 - You need to define all the volumes to back up in the configuration system
 - Backups require services to be stopped to take consistent copies

Backupbot II tries to help, by
1. **letting you define backups using Docker labels**, so you can **easily collect your backups for use with another system** like docker-volume-backup.
2. **running pre- and post-commands** before and after backups, for example to use database tools to take a backup from a running service.

## Deployment

### With Co-op Cloud


* `abra app new backup-bot-two`
* `abra app config <app-name>`
    - set storage options. Either configure `CRON_SCHEDULE`, or set up `swarm-cronjob`
* `abra app secret generate -a <app_name>`
* `abra app deploy <app-name>`

## Configuration

Per default Backupbot stores the backups locally in the repository `/backups/restic`, which is accessible as volume at `/var/lib/docker/volumes/<app_name>_backups/_data/restic/`

The backup location can be changed using the `RESTIC_REPO` env variable.

### S3 Storage

To use S3 storage as backup location set the following envs:
```
RESTIC_REPO=s3:<S3-SERVICE-URL>/<BUCKET-NAME>
SECRET_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_VERSION=v1
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<MY_ACCESS_KEY>
COMPOSE_FILE="$COMPOSE_FILE:compose.s3.yml"
```
and add your `<SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>` as docker secret:
`abra app secret insert <app_name> aws_secret_access_key v1 <SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>`

See [restic s3 docs](https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/030_preparing_a_new_repo.html#amazon-s3) for more information.

### SFTP Storage

> With sftp it is not possible to prevent the backupbot from deleting backups in case of a compromised machine. Therefore we recommend to use S3, REST or rclone server without delete permissions.

To use SFTP storage as backup location set the following envs:
```
RESTIC_REPO=sftp:user@host:/restic-repo-path
SECRET_SSH_KEY_VERSION=v1
SSH_HOST_KEY="hostname ssh-rsa AAAAB3...
COMPOSE_FILE="$COMPOSE_FILE:compose.ssh.yml"
```
To get the `SSH_HOST_KEY` run the following command `ssh-keyscan <hostname>`

Generate an ssh keypair: `ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f backupkey -P ''`
Add the key to your `authorized_keys`:
`ssh-copy-id -i backupkey <user>@<hostname>`
Add your `SSH_KEY` as docker secret:
```
abra app secret insert <app_name> ssh_key v1 """$(cat backupkey)
"""
```


## Usage


Create a backup of all apps:

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup create`

> The apps to backup up need to be deployed

Create an individual backup:

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup --host <target_app_name> create`

Create a backup to a local repository:

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup create -r /backups/restic`

> It is recommended to shutdown/undeploy an app before restoring the data

Restore the latest snapshot of all including apps:

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup restore`

Restore a specific snapshot of an individual app:

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup --host <target_app_name> restore --snapshot <snapshot_id>`

Show all snapshots:

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup snapshots`

Show all snapshots containing a specific app:

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup --host <target_app_name> snapshots`

Show all files inside the latest snapshot (can be very verbose):

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup ls`

Show specific files inside a selected snapshot:

`abra app run <app_name> app -- backup ls --snapshot <snapshot_id> --path /var/lib/docker/volumes/`

Download files from a snapshot:

```
filename=$(abra app run <app_name> app -- backup download --snapshot <snapshot_id> --path <absolute_path>)
abra app cp <app_name> app:$filename .
```


## Recipe Configuration

Like Traefik, or `swarm-cronjob`, Backupbot II uses access to the Docker socket to read labels from running Docker Swarm services:

```
services:
  db:
    deploy:
      labels:
        backupbot.backup: ${BACKUP:-"true"} 
        backupbot.backup.pre-hook: 'mysqldump -u root -p"$(cat /run/secrets/db_root_password)" -f /volume_path/dump.db'
        backupbot.backup.post-hook: "rm -rf /volume_path/dump.db"
```

- `backupbot.backup` -- set to `true` to back up this service (REQUIRED)
- `backupbot.backup.pre-hook` -- command to run before copying files (optional), save all dumps into the volumes
- `backupbot.backup.post-hook` -- command to run after copying files (optional)

As in the above example, you can reference Docker Secrets, e.g. for looking up database passwords, by reading the files in `/run/secrets` directly.

[abra]: https://git.autonomic.zone/autonomic-cooperative/abra