On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Tom Pantelis <tompante...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You restore by putting the backup file in
> $KARAF_HOME/clustered-datastore-restore
> (create it)
>
I assume `clustered-datastore-restore` is a directory. Does the backup file
name matter?
-Lori
> , delete journal and snapshots directories and start karaf.
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:20 AM, David Suarez Fuentes <
> david.suarez.fuen...@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> Thanks Lori to point out to this API method. By looking at the methods
>> offered by the cluster-admin module, what I cannot see is the "restore"
>> method. Can someone tell us where we can find this?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> David.
>> ------------------------------
>> *De:* controller-dev-boun...@lists.opendaylight.org <
>> controller-dev-boun...@lists.opendaylight.org> en nombre de Lori Jakab <
>> lorand.jakab+...@gmail.com>
>> *Enviado:* miércoles, 11 de enero de 2017 21:31:44
>> *Para:* Miguel Angel Muñoz Gonzalez
>> *Cc:* disc...@lists.opendaylight.org; controller-dev@lists.opendayli
>> ght.org
>> *Asunto:* Re: [controller-dev] Backup and Restore
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 8:39 PM, Miguel Angel Muñoz Gonzalez <
>> miguel.angel.munoz.gonza...@ericsson.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> We are trying to implement a backup/restore mechanism for ODL. I have
>>> not found much information about it in pipermail history except some
>>> questions and brief proposals (such as generating an snapshot and storing
>>> in a particular file, using an external database,…). I would appreciate if
>>> someone familiar with the topic could give us some hints on it:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - Is it possible to backup MDSAL Configuration datastore as of
>>> today? (I suppose it’s a matter of backing up leveldb files)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - If so, how can we guarantee that the backup is correct
>>> and/or consistent while it is running traffic and datastore is being
>>> modified?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - Supposedly there is a working mechanism consisting on:
>>> stopping ODL, copying the files manually and start it up… However, it would
>>> nice to know if there a more sophisticated mechanism to backup the
>>> datastore, especially if it does not imply stopping ODL. E.g. a particular
>>> API or tool that can be called to perform this activity?
>>>
>>
>> I hope more knowledgeable people will give you a detailed answer, but
>> there is one RPC that allows creating a backup of ODL while it is running:
>>
>> POST /restconf/operations/cluster-admin:backup-datastore
>>
>> Where the message body looks like this:
>>
>> {
>> "input": {
>> "file-path": "/tmp/datastore_backup"
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Since the datastore is transaction based, I assume this will save data up
>> to the last successful transaction, but don't quote me on that.
>>
>> One of the main issues with backup/restore, AFAIK is the possibility that
>> a schema (YANG model) may change between the backup and restore, and how to
>> handle that.
>>
>> -Lori
>>
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