As FIWARE Lab is implemented using Openstack, you can use Openstack's APIs for the Snapshot. It should be enough to use Openstack Nova APIs. These APIs are implemented in python-openstackclient and python-novacliente packages.

The command is "nova image-craete <server_uuid> <name_of_snapshot>"

But this is not a good choice for a daily snapshot.

Snapshot is not a good method to make daily backups — I don't recommend it, you would run out of quota in few days and this is dangerous for the FIWARE Lab itself as it could lead to a Denial of service as the snapshots grew too big.

There are tools to make backups for almost anything you want to backup, specially for any database you can think of. — Snapshots are basically done to be able to create a new VM from an existing one.

FIWARE Lab doesn't offer a tool to make backups. —

What I'd recommend you to do is keeping a backup of your data and using a Snapshot for your already configured VMs to make sure you can recreate your VMs in case of loosing the VM itself.

Regards,
José Ignacio

Comment by victor@geographica.gs :

Hello Fernando,

I wanted to make snapshots today (using https://cloud.lab.fiware.org panel).

Three servers:

• api-connectors, we cannot access, Task "image_pending_upload"
• database, we cannot access, Task "image_pending_upload"
• web, we can access but we cannot make snapshots (Status = ERROR)

We need help.

Thanks.

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2017-09-06 10:04 GMT+02:00 Víctor Varela <victor@geographica.gs>:

> Hello Fernando,
>
> Can you tell me some links/info about how to make these ?
>
>> there is an option to get a complete snapshot of your instance through
>> the portal which means that you can make the same through APIs.
>
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
>
> 2017-08-28 10:20 GMT+02:00 Help-Desk <jira-help-desk@jira.fiware.org>:
>
>>
>>
>

Comment by victor@geographica.gs :

Hello Fernando,

Can you tell me some links/info about how to make these ?

> there is an option to get a complete snapshot of your instance through the
> portal which means that you can make the same through APIs.

Thanks for your answer.

2017-08-28 10:20 GMT+02:00 Help-Desk <jira-help-desk@jira.fiware.org>:

>
>

Dea Victor,

Currently, there is an option to get a complete snapshot of your instance through the portal which means that you can make the same through APIs. But keep in mind that it is a lot of information in your account and not all it is needed for your database backup.

My suggestion is to go outside of the cloud and implement some automatic procedure to get it from the database and store it (if it could be possible) outside the FIWARE Lab environment. It is not a question about if I do not believe in the availability of the FIWARE Lab but it is a question regarding the the semantic of this backup process. If there is a problem with your VMs could be possible that you also have a problem with the one in which to keep this backup.

I hope that I can answer your email.

Fernando

Comment by victor@geographica.gs :

Hello again,

Any answer to my question ? We need to make daily backups ?

Thanks.
Regards.

2017-08-21 14:05 GMT+02:00 Victor M. Varela <victor@geographica.gs>:

> Hello,
>
> We would like to create daily snapshots for our 3 VMs (db instance is the
> most important).
>
> How can we implement this backups ?
> Is there any remote api or any (not found) option in the administration
> site ?
>
> Thanks.
> B.R.
>
>
>
> *Victor M. Varela*Systems Analyst
>
> https://geographica.gs
>

–

VIctor M. Varela
Systems Analyst

Comment by victor@geographica.gs :

Hello again,

Any answer to my question ? We need to make daily backups ?

Thanks.
Regards.

*Victor M. Varela*Systems Analyst

https://geographica.gs

2017-08-21 14:05 GMT+02:00 Victor M. Varela <victor@geographica.gs>:

> Hello,
>
> We would like to create daily snapshots for our 3 VMs (db instance is the
> most important).
>
> How can we implement this backups ?
> Is there any remote api or any (not found) option in the administration
> site ?
>
> Thanks.
> B.R.
>
>
>
> *Victor M. Varela*Systems Analyst
>
> https://geographica.gs
>