Backs up one or more Cloudmin-managed virtual systems.
This command creates backups of one or more Cloudmin systems to the specified backup destination. The systems to include are selected using standard flags like --host or --owner, and the destination by the --dest flag followed by a destination specification like /backup/cloudmin or backupserver:/cloudmin. To use the default backup destination for each system's host, use the --default-dest flag instead of --dest.
By default, systems are backed up one by one. However, you can have them done in parallel with the --parallel flag.
Systems will be left running during the backup, which may lead to filesystem or database inconsistencies. To have them shut down (if running) during the backup, use the --shutdown flag.
To have Cloudmin delete backup old destinations under the same directory as this backup's destination, use the --purge flag followed by a number of days. This will only work if the backup is to a date-based directory, like /backup/%d-%m-%Y.
To just show which systems will be backed up and to where, use the --test flag. This is useful when selecting systems by group or host, or when using a date-based backup destination spec.
Example usage
cloudmin backup-systems --host openvzgpl.home Finding systems to backup .. .. found 1 systems Working out backup destinations .. .. found 1 usable destinations Backing up openvzgpl.home to /backup/cloudmin/openvzgpl.home.tar.gz on Cloudmin master .. .. created backup of 160.40 MB
Command Line Help
Backs up one or more managed systems.
cloudmin backup-systems [--host name]*
[--group name]*
[--type real|kvm|gce|this]*
[--os oscode]*
[--owner name]*
[--status status-code|"up"|"wm"|"bad"]
[--host-on name]
--dest destination-directory | --default-dest
[--shutdown]
[--parallel]
[--purge days]
[--test]
The destination can be one of :
- A dir on the VM2 master, like /backup
- A dir on another VM2-managed system, like backupbox:/backup
- A dir on the host systems, like host:/backup
- An FTP destination, like ftp:login:pass@server/backup
- An SSH destination, like ssh:login:pass@server/backup
- An S3 destination, like s3:access-key:secret-key@bucket/path
- A Rackspace destination, like rs:user:pass@container/path