XenBackup NG
A friend modify my script and make some change i post his change:
# XenBackup-ng by Riccardo Bicelli
# built on “XEN Server backup by Filippo Zanardo – https://pipposan.wordpress.com”# Usage: “perl xenbackup.pl “, where job name is the name of the job file located in subfolder “jobs”, without “.conf” suffix.
# Difference between this and Xenbackup
# 1. Subroutines
# 2. Separation of configuration files and hierarchy:
# – conf/strings.conf -> Where strings of log and mail notification can be localized
# – conf/xenbackup.conf -> global configuration file, where you can specify also default parameters if you are not using jobs
# – jobs/job.conf -> Job File, loaded after xenbackup.conf
# 3. Now backup is possible with VM Selection
# 4. Quiesce snapshot for Windows VM (Only if guest has Xenserver VSS provider installed)
# 5. Mail Notification now comes with a head Section with a checklist of backed up VM and verbose log attached, if wanted
# 6. More controls on commands executed (e.g. Exit codes checked after some command execution)
# 7. Keeps care of running state of the VM (e.g if a VM in in state halted it is not started after backup job)
# 8. Versioning (deletion of files) executed only if backup process went fine# To Implement:
# 1. Host Backup
# 2. Metadata backup with Metadata SR Copy
# 3. Metadata option to BM backup
# 4. Pool data backup
download the file here
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Xenserver Backup Updated 2.2
Ok guys,
i have some time and i have updated my xen backup script, to improve it and to add some few features.
Basically i add the possibility to compress the backup and the possibility to have more than 1 removable storage, the line changed in the config.txt file are:
#the uudi of the removable storage, at the moment i don’t have an efficent script to localize since name can change
@removableuuid = (‘d7a8fb07-e7d1-9eb4-6d79-dca8680ace89′,’d7a8fb07-e7d1-9eb4-6d79-dca8680ace86’);#compress option enable/disable compression
$compress = true;#compress command
$compresscmd = “tar -czvf”;#compress extension easiser for me to put correct extension
$compressext = “.tar.gz”;
Few other check and modification, the rest is the same.
You can downlaod the new script at:
http://xenbackup.googlecode.com/files/xenbackup2.2.zip
Please comment for feature, bug and so on.
Enjoy! Cheers!
Web Xen Server Backup
Ok guys,
finally i have some time to write what i have in mind, i’m starting a new project about xenserver backup.
The goal is to make a web interface for the backup and eventually for the restore of the vm.
Some feature i want to add:
- Multiuser
- ACL based
- XMLRPC based
- Scheduled backup
- Extended notification
- Multilanguage
- Metadata backup
- Data deduplication with lessfs or opendedup
- Possibility to manage and take backup on every kind of storage (NAS,USB disk etc etc)
- XVA can be downloaded everywhere
- Cool interface
- the interface can be installed everywhere as long the machine can communicate with xenserver
Ok this some of the feature i have in mind, more will come surely.
I will develop the project in PHP+Mysql+Js.
What do you think about?
What feature you want to be added?
Please comment so we can make some brainstorming and you can give me great idea, and of course if someone wanna help me or partecipate in this project it’s appreciated.
Cheers
XenServer Final Backup Script with or without snapshot
Ok guys,
Xenserver 5.6 is out now, and i enhance my backup script i rewrite some part and add some more features/controls, that i will explain later.
UPDATED: 2.2 is now avaiable i rewrite the check avaiable space to fix a minor bug
You can donwload the 2.1 script here
It’s simple to set up just modify config.txt and than you can run the script with this simple command line:
perl /path/to/backup.pl /path/to/config.txt
Now i will explain what you can configure and the features:
– @skip: this variable contain the uuid of the machine to skip in the backup you can get with the command ‘xe vm-list’, add more uuid separeted by ‘,’
– usesnapshot: if set to true backup script try to make a snapshot of the vm, else he shutdown the machine, export and power on the machine
– removable: if set to true the script detach the removable storage, else snapshot fail, and then reattached in the correct order, just remember to set up the variable removableuuid with your removable uuid you can get with command ‘xe sr-list’
– mailNotification: if set to true script send email to and from the email specified in the config file, i remove the script used before now script use ssmtp that is already installed in xenserver, just configure the file /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf with your data and remember to uncomment this line FromLineOverride=YES
– subfolder: Set to true to create a subfolder in the store for each backup based on vm name
– versioning: Set to true to let the script manage to delete the backup older than a certain day or number or hours specified in the $delnumber variable
– logging: if set to true the script write all the message with data into one log/file specified in the variable $logfile
– automount: if set to true script try to mount the backupdir specified in mountcommand at start and umount at end, else no action taken and u have to mount dir manually
– checkspace: if set to true the script check the avaiable space on the backup dir and if less than $spacerequired quit with a message, size is in MB
i add also some check to verify that the correct file is been written on the backup folder, if not backup error is notified.
That’s all i hope i explain well and you like the script, comment or post for bugs, feature etc etc.
Cheers!
Bacula Tape Restore Without Database
Hi guys,
sometimes happens that your machine crash and is unrecoverable, so your bacula database, and so how can you extract what do you need from a tape used with bacula?
bacula volume utility tools come in help.
First you can try to check what jobs,files contain the tape with the command bls, for example:
bls -j -V Test1 /dev/st0
This command try to read the tape inside st0 with the volume Test1 (label of your tape) and show a list of job inside the tape, like:
bls: butil.c:258 Using device: "DDS-4" for reading.
11-Jul 11:54 bls: Ready to read from volume "Test1" on device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0).
Volume Record: File:blk=0:1 SessId=4 SessTime=1121074625 JobId=0 DataLen=165
Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=0:2 SessId=4 SessTime=1121074625 JobId=1 Level=F Type=B
Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=0:3 SessId=5 SessTime=1121074625 JobId=5 Level=F Type=B
Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=0:6 SessId=3 SessTime=1121074625 JobId=2 Level=F Type=B
Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=0:13 SessId=2 SessTime=1121074625 JobId=4 Level=F Type=B
End Job Session Record: File:blk=0:99 SessId=3 SessTime=1121074625 JobId=2 Level=F Type=B
Files=168 Bytes=1,732,978 Errors=0 Status=T
End Job Session Record: File:blk=0:101 SessId=2 SessTime=1121074625 JobId=4 Level=F Type=B
This information is very important later for restore exactly what we need, SessId and SessTime is our precious information.
Now that we collect enough information we can proceed to restore with the useful command bextract, but we need to tell what session or job to extract, how?
Simple, with bootstrap file, based on the example above we need to restore session 3 from the tape so we create a simple file for example named sess3.bsr, with something similar inside:
Volume = Test1
VolSessionId = 3
VolSessionTime = 1121074625
Finally we can extract safely our data with bextract with this command:
bextract -b sess3.bsr /dev/st0 /tmp
and voilà you have restored exactly what you need with only a tape.
cheers!
Nagios Plugin To Check XenServer License
Hi guys,
since xenserver license is active for 1 year, happens sometimes that i forgot to reactivate the license, and then if u shut down the vm machine they don’t start up if license is expired, i create a nagios plugin to check the days remaining for the license.
here’s the script updated thanks to Martin:
#!/bin/bash
#
# retrieve remaining day for xenserver license
#
# Date: 2010-04-15
# Author: Filippo Zanardo
## get arguments
while getopts ‘w:c:hp’ OPT; do
case $OPT in
w) int_warn=$OPTARG;;
c) int_crit=$OPTARG;;
h) hlp=”yes”;;
*) unknown=”yes”;;
esac
done# usage
HELP=”
usage: $0 [ -w value -c value -h ]syntax:
-w –> Warning integer value
-c –> Critical integer value
-h –> print this help screen
”if [ “$hlp” = “yes” -o $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo “$HELP”
exit 0
fi# get license expiry date
EX=`xe host-license-view |grep expiry | awk ‘{ print $2; }’`
DEX=${EX:0:8}today=`date +%Y%m%d`
timeStampToday=`date +%s -d $today`
timeStampOfPast=`date +%s -d $DEX`
secondsInDay=86400
dayDiff=`echo \($timeStampOfPast – $timeStampToday\) / $secondsInDay – 1 | bc`#dayDiff is the day remaining
OUTPUT=”$dayDiff days remaining”
if [ -n “$int_warn” -a -n “$int_crit” ]; then
err=0
if (( $dayDiff <= $int_warn )); then
err=1
elif (( $dayDiff <= $int_crit )); then
err=2
fiif (( $err == 0 )); then
echo -n "OK – $OUTPUT"
exit "$err"elif (( $err == 1 )); then
echo -n "WARNING – $OUTPUT"
exit "$err"elif (( $err == 2 )); then
echo -n "CRITICAL – $OUTPUT"
exit "$err"fi
else
echo -n "no output from plugin"
exit 3fi
exit
just copy it save with some name for example check_xenlicense.sh in the nagios plugins directory and configure to use for example with nrpe.
basic usage is:
check_xenlicense.sh -w 15 -c 5
where “w” is the days remaining for a warning message and “c” is the days remaining for a critical message
if you don’t use nagios you can use as a simple script in a cron job or whatever.
Maybe if someone find this useful i will add the ability to send an email notification.
Cheers
Post for suggestion comment etc etc
XenServer Backup with Bacula VM director and web interface
Ok guys now it’s time to put the director on a virtual machine, usually i use debian but u can use whatever distro you like, with mysql-server and apache2 installed.
It’s simply in xenserver create a Debian vm as long you install also linux pack, just make new vm from debian template 🙂
Next install some packages needed for bacula and bweb (web interface that i use with bacula).
Run this command:
apt-get install apache2 mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev php5-mysql php5-mysql
This packages install mysql-server apache2 and php5, make sure you have make and some compiler cause i will compile bacula, or simply install this:
apt-get install build-essential
ok now we have quiet done with prerequisites, we can go to the bacula sourceforge page and copy the direct link from download page, and execute:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/bacula/bacula/5.0.0/bacula-5.0.0.tar.gz?use_mirror=sunet
also donwload bacula gui:
ok now extract bacula with the command:
tar -xzvf bacula-5.0.0.tar.gz
enter the bacula folder and configure for compiling using:
./configure –sysconfdir=/etc/bacula –with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula/scripts –with-smtp-host=localhost –with-mysql –with-tcp-wrappers –enable-smartalloc
after configuration’s finished launch this command:
make
make install
Compile the information needed by bacula database prompted and we are ready.
u can check the state of bacula using bconsole use the command:
/etc/bacula/bconsole
ok now go back 1 folder and extract bacula gui, go into this folder/bweb, and run this command needed by bweb, or check INSTALL file:
apt-get install libgd-graph-perl libhtml-template-perl libexpect-perl \
libdbd-mysql-perl libdbd-pg-perl libdbi-perl \
libdate-calc-perl libtime-modules-perl
now install with this command:
perl Makefile.PL
make install
copy the bweb perl program to your cgi location
mkdir -m 755 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/bweb
install -m 755 -o root -g root bweb/cgi/*.pl /usr/lib/cgi-bin/bweb
get a config file, if you want to use an other place edit lib/Bweb.pm
echo ‘$VAR1 = { template_dir => “/usr/share/bweb/tpl” };’ > /etc/bacula/bweb.conf
chown www-data /etc/bacula/bweb.conf
copy the bweb template file
mkdir -p /usr/share/bweb/tpl/en
install -m 644 -o root -g root bweb/lang/en/tpl/*.tpl /usr/share/bweb/tpl/en
copy the bweb graphics elements (bweb elements must reside in /bweb)
mkdir /var/www/bweb
install -m 644 -o root -g root bweb/html/*.{js,png,css,gif,ico,html} /var/www/bweb
done, reload your apachewith ” /etc/init.d/apache2 reload” and you can finally browse at http://yourip/bweb
and insert information needed by bweb for the configuration file.
Ok now part one is done, we only need to configure our director to talk with the other daemon, and the one we installed on xen server host machine, open the file /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf and add this line for the storage daemon:
# Definition of DDS tape storage device
Storage {
Name = Tape
Address = x.x.x.x # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
SDPort = 9103
Password = “yourpassword” # password for Storage daemon
Device = ULTRIUM # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
Media Type = ULTRIUM # must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon
}
remember to put the same name device, and media type specified in bacula-sd.conf in the xenserver host machine.
For the file daemon:
Client {
Name = f10-64-build-fd
Address = 10.0.0.14
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = “pippo” # password for FileDaemon
File Retention = 30 days # 30 days
Job Retention = 6 months # six months
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files
}
Name must be the same that the one specified in bacula-fd.conf on xenserver host machine.
Restart bacula-director with “/etc/bacula/bacula restart” You can check the status of the connection using bconsole (/etc/bacula/bconsole) type st in the console and type 4 for the status of all components, if no error message show you configure well and u can begin to create a pool and a backup job.
Read the documentation about bacula for setting up the job, or maybe later i will blog about that.
Comments for help!
Cheers
