Backup & Restore of Enterprise Manager

Procedures for backing up the Enterprise Manager configurations and metrics data, as well as steps for restoring the system in case of failure.

Note: This is about backing up the data, configuration and collected metrics of the Enterprise Manager (EM), not the databases.

Backing up Enterprise Manager

1

Stop the Enterprise Manager

1. Go to the Enterprise Manager installation directory

2. Run docker compose stop to stop the Enterprise Manager

2

Create a directory for backups

Create the `backups` directory

mkdir backups

3

Take a backup of all the volumes

Back up all volumes

docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-grafana -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest tar -czf /backups/grafana-backup.tar.gz /var/lib/grafana/
docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-prometheus -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest tar -czf /backups/prometheus-backup.tar.gz /prometheus/
docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-supermax -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest tar -czf /backups/supermax-backup.tar.gz /var/lib/supermax/

The backups directory now contains the data from the Enterprise Manager.

4

Start the Enterprise Manager

1. Go to the Enterprise Manager installation directory

2. Run docker compose up -d to start the Enterprise Manager

Restoring Enterprise Manager Server

1

Stop the Enterprise Manager

1. Go to the Enterprise Manager installation directory

2. Run docker compose stop to stop the Enterprise Manager

2

Restore the backup of all volumes

The backups are stored in the ~/backups/ directory.

Restore backup to all volumes

# Clear out any existing data first
docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-grafana -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest find /var/lib/grafana/ -delete -mindepth 1
docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-prometheus -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest find /prometheus/ -delete -mindepth 1
docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-supermax -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest find /var/lib/supermax/ -delete -mindepth 1

# Restore the data from the backups
docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-grafana -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest tar -C / -xzf /backups/grafana-backup.tar.gz
docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-prometheus -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest tar -C / -xzf /backups/prometheus-backup.tar.gz
docker run --rm --volumes-from enterprise-manager-supermax -v $(pwd)/backups/:/backups:Z alpine:latest tar -C / -xzf /backups/supermax-backup.tar.gz

3

Start the Enterprise Manager

1. Go to the Enterprise Manager installation directory

2. Run docker compose up -d to start the Enterprise Manager

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