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Backup/Restore Service Overview

The backup/restore service provides two pieces of functionality:

  1. Backup
  2. Restore

Backup

When configuration files are created or modified, other services will inform the BackupRestore Service. On receipt of the notification, a timer is created with a random number between 1-12. That number represents the hours to delay before starting a backup job. The idea here is to reduce the number of backups created per day.

The backup job is comprised of the following steps:

  1. Create a tarball of all configuration files and the version file
  2. Encrypt the tarball (optional)
  3. Upload the encrypted tarball to the cloud
  4. Send notification that the backup is complete

Restore

Generally used during an RMA, the restore process flow is:

  1. Download an encrypted backup tarball from the cloud
  2. Decrypt the encrypted tarball (optional)
  3. Unpack the decrypted tarball into a temporary directory
  4. Notify each service of the temporary location
  5. Restart any services that respond to the notification with a RESTORED_CALLBACK_RESTART
  6. Delete/cleanup the temporary directory
  7. Send notification that the restore is complete