Managed Customer (VM) backup¶

• Table of contents
• Managed Customer (VM) backup
  • Status
  • Overview
  • FAQ
    • How to enable this service?
    • What is the pricing model?
    • What is the retention policy?
    • How can I access my backups?

This document concerns end-users/customers. See [[datacenterlight:Backup]] page for server-side documentation.

Status¶

This document is a DRAFT.

Overview¶

• Official product page: https://ungleich.ch/u/products/backup/
• Related DatacenterLight FAQ entry: https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure/wiki/FAQ_at_Data_Center_Light#Backup

We make use of the ccollect software, which runs every day at 3AM Europe/Zurich. The backup server and storage clusters are in a location (place5) physically separated from the customer VMs (place6).

FAQ¶

How to enable this service?¶

You will have to contact our support and give them the following details:

• Address of the VM to backup (IPv6 or domain with AAAA field).
• Directories to backup. Default is / excluding /sys and /proc.

ccollect makes use of rsync to transfer data and needs to connect to your server over SSH (rsync itself is not encrypted!). You need to configure an user - root for a full system backup - with the following SSH key (to put in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys):

# backup.place5.ungleich.ch
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQC7LsZp048K5D2kSWwiI5fux5pv4Ji7eTtMZGpOu0MviZEuGG3T5NeSKPmdlG1Rr3/oLpIqaFPzB7la3SI0OX5/E3v/yWcSrIsXdoIlSJMx7yaWrd4rm3yICukg4v5cZm2iDGBzIffpRxN1aPg46XnwmSvID3dD18yHMfgKyOFJgMwpTeI0d+K99cRYdf0D+QoUUyJlEes8xOw29lfT+1gg3KXBfYeggXLxMQ1xOH5L91j3Lg1taaD0EfyvkjO+TspcEwIwEtcBwdGRDbkjNkZOgFUEoWpxEFESLFRvr+JxgDJjvkLD4Q7l6tNOvW30oq7iI961NbXSwgM1cH0gNPED ungleich-backup

What is the pricing model?¶

See product page.

What is the retention policy?¶

The default retention policy is: 5 daily backups, 4 weekly backups, 12 monthly backups.

How can I access my backups?¶

You can access the files over SFTP using your ungleich account (username + password) against backup.place5.ungleich.ch. You can use any SFTP client such as command-line sftp (@sftp myusername@backup.place5.ungleich.ch) or Filezilla (graphical client).

Note: at the moment, backup.place5.ungleich.ch is only available over IPv6.