A tool to take backups of ceph rados block images that works in two backup modes (see Sample configuration):

• Incremental: incremental backups within a given backup window based on rbd snapshots
• Full: full image exports based on a temporary snapshot

Note on consistency: this tool makes snapshots of rbd images without any awareness of the status of the filesystem they contain. Be aware of the consistency limits of rbd snapshots: https://docs.ceph.com/docs/hammer/rbd/rbd-snapshot/.

Generate the source distribution to be installed with pip

$ python setup.py sdist

Or directly install the package

$ python setup.py install

Create a configuration file and place it in /etc/cephbackup/cephbackup.conf (or specify the path of the configuration file with the -c option), then run the tool:

$ sudo cephbackup

Defines a backup configuration for a single ceph pool called "rbd", with a window size of 7 days and incremental (diffs) backups. Two images are configured for backup: rbd/logs and rbd/conf. Exported backup files will be compressed.

[rbd]
window size = 7
window unit = days
destination directory = /mnt/ceph_backups/
images = logs,conf
compress = yes
ceph config = /etc/ceph/ceph.conf
backup mode = incremental
check mode = no

Using images = * creates a backup of all images in the pool.

Restore the base export (full):

# rbd import [email protected] dest_image

Recreate the base snapshot on the restored image:

# rbd snap create dest_image@UTC20161130T170848

Restore the incremental diffs:

# rbd import-diff [email protected]_from_UTC20161130T170848 dest_image