Introduction

This procedure covers the action to create a backup of BOA DDBB.

Pre-conditions

1. An available BOA environment is ready to use.

Procedure

1. Access to the BOA environment.
2. If containers are not running, start containers (as root):

Note: the names of the containers may differ between environments (check with docker container list).

docker start boa_app_dev boa_database_dev

1. Connect to database:

docker exec -it -u postgres boa_database_dev /bin/bash

1. Dump DDBBs to a file:

pg_dumpall -h boa_database_dev -U postgres > /tmp/boa.sql

1. Exit from previous connection and upload DDBBs backup to the app container

docker cp boa_database_dev:/tmp/boa.sql /tmp/boa.sql
docker cp /tmp/boa.sql boa_app_dev:/tmp/boa.sql

1. Connect to app:

docker exec -it -u boa boa_app_dev /bin/bash

1. Create backup:

cd /tmp
tar czvf /tmp/boa.tgz /minarc_root /rboa_archive boa.sql

1. Exit from previous connection and export the BOA backup using the following command:

docker cp boa_app_dev:/tmp/boa.tgz /tmp/

1. Clean-up containers:
   1. Connect to database and clean-up DDBBs backup:

docker exec -it -u postgres boa_database_dev /bin/bash
rm /tmp/boa.sql

1. Exit from previous connection, connect to app and clean-up DDBBs backup:

docker exec -it -u root boa_app_dev /bin/bash
rm /tmp/boa.tgz
rm /tmp/boa.sql