CONSUL SCHEDULE BACKUP

Schedule backup (snapshot) for consul key/value with cronjob

Configurations

• Setup Environment:

  ENV="0"    # (0 = staging, 1 = production)
  

• Setup Token:

  TOKEN_AUTH_PROD="[YOUR_PROD_ACL_MASTER_TOKEN]"
  TOKEN_AUTH_STAGING="[YOUR_STAGING_ACL_MASTER_TOKEN]"
  

• Setup cronjob

  crontab -e
  

• Add last line:

  ## Daily Backup K/V every 30 minutes
  */30 * * * * bash /root/cs-backup-dday.sh
  
  ## Daily Backup K/V at 1.00pm
  0 1 * * * bash /root/cs-backup-daily.sh
  
  ## Weekly Backup K/V at 2.00pm Friday
  0 2 * * 5 bash /root/cs-backup-weekly.sh
  

Notes:

• You can copy crontab.lst to /etc/cron.d/consul-backup for default cronjob.

  sudo cp crontab.lst /etc/cron.d/consul-backup
  

• We recommend to store / save in public cloud storage (AWS S3, GCP Object Storage, etc) for better backup & restore file.

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Running Manual

cd /root
./cs-backup-daily.sh
./cs-backup-dday.sh
./cs-backup-weekly.sh

License

Apache version 2.0