backup/backup

Easy full stack backup operations on UNIX-like systems.

zenzei

@zenzei

Thanks @stuartellis! No problem, i will try to look and see if it's good enough to be shared :)

Mohammed Naser

@mnaser

Is there any docs about extending the Backup gem?

I’m trying to do backup for our InfluxDB infrastructure. I have something like this, but it’s failing at "archive.add @influxdb_dir”.

So maybe I should implement this as a database backup as part of a PR, but I’m unsure where to start.. is the reference point other plugins pretty much?

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

@attilastrba - The first thing that catches my eye is your directory name has spaces, so it might be that you need to escape those spaces. (Sorry for not replying before).

@mnaser - Yes, I think that the best thing to do is take a look at the source of existing plugins. Feel free to submit a PR if you would like someone to look at your code. Or if you have a question, feel free to post here.

Akshay Rawat

@akshayrawat

How do I disable cycling of DB backups on a FTP server? (v3.4.0)

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

@akshayrawat - I’m sorry for the late reply. We don’t support version 3, so I would definitely recommend upgrading. Looking at the code for version 4, there are various tricks that you could use, like setting a keep time far in the future, but I don’t think that you can or should try to have infinite copies: obviously you would eventually run out of disk space or end up with so many copies that it would be hard to manage.

Richard Matthews

@Reinkaos

Hey guys, I am attempting to upgrade backup from 3.4.0 to 4.4 and I am getting an issue where it doesn't seem to be compatible with Rails 4.2.8. The error that I am getting when attempting to bundle is to do with the thread safe dependancy. Has anyone come across this before? Thanks

It seems to be any 4.2.x Rails version is not compatible

Tom de Bruijn

@tombruijn

Hi @Reinkaos , backup is not compatible to be run in a Rails project.

It's better if you set up a separate project for it

Mike Delaney

@madelaney

When using postgresql dumps, can you have the sql dump writing to a specific directory? i.e. /srv/backups/#{time}/dump.sql

Richard Matthews

@Reinkaos

Thanks @tombruijn, that makes sense

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

@madelaney - You could probably use the "additional_options” to pass a - -file argument to pg_dump.

Attila Strba

@attilastrba

hi @stuartellis I am trying to implement a feature for incremental backup with rsync. I have created the tests with rspec but I am unable to get the Vagrant up and running as the base box from this address http://dl.dropbox.com/u/95700067/backup-testbox.box is missing. Could you point me to the right direction how could I test my implementation? Thank you

Attila Strba

@attilastrba

ah ok I see you are moving to docker backup/backup#832 still if you would give me a point how to execute the tests would be glad...

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

Hello @attilastrba! Yes, we don’t have access to the Vagrant box anymore, so I’m porting the tests from Vagrant to Docker. The rsync tests have already been ported. You can just run the Rake tasks and they will pull and build images etc.
rake docker:test:all # Run all tests with Docker Compose
rake docker:test:integration # Run integration tests with Docker Compose
rake docker:test:spec # Run RSpec tests with Docker Compose

Please ping me or comment on the GH issue if you have any problems: What I’ve pushed should work without errors

Attila Strba

@attilastrba

thank you @stuartellis I see this commit is not yet merged to the master. does it mean I should fork your repo and base my feature implementation there? sorry for the dummy question it is my first try to create a pullrequest on github...

Mike Delaney

@madelaney

Thanks @stuartellis , I'll give that a try.

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

@attilastrba - Yes, that’s what I meant. I’m sorry that this isn’t straight-forward. Please feel free to use the master branch to write your code, and then submit a PR: we can help you with any issues.

netmoleCBA

@netmoleCBA

good day there

i am dealing with backup/backup#836 and i cant discover how to fix conflict with thor

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

@netmoleCBA - Hello! I would recommend each Ruby or Rails application in it’s own environment, but there are several different ways to do this. If you can say a bit about the system and what Ruby or Rails applications are on it, I can try to give you more specific suggestions.

Onno

@onknows

hi all

Is is possible to send notifications to Slack when backup gem is behind a proxy server?

Tom de Bruijn

@tombruijn

I don't think so. We've not added any options to allow users to set a proxy servers. We should do that..

Tom de Bruijn

@tombruijn

Want to help out with Backup development? I've started a new channel for it, see backup/backup-dev . (Making this an issue/support room only)

flprben

@feliperaul

Also couldn't solve thor issues: can't #836 be solved in any other way?

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

@feliperaul I’m afraid that (IMO) each Ruby application ought to be run in a separate environment. Even if we worked around the conflict with Thor now, we might have other issues in future.

Tom de Bruijn

@tombruijn

agreed :point_up:

Denis

@Arlantir

Hi, when version 5 is being crashed and can I install it with ruby 2.4?

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

Hello @Arlantir version 4.2 does not work with 2.4 (2.3 is OK). Version 5 will work with Ruby 2.4, but has not been released yet.

Denis

@Arlantir

@stuartellis Thank you

Stephen Edgar

@ntwb

Does Backup work with Rasbian?

Tom de Bruijn

@tombruijn

@ntwb I don't know. Never tried it. It's a linux based OS, so it probably does. Try it out and let me know if it works

Stephen Edgar

@ntwb

Thanks @tombruijn, I did try it and ended up with the same issue as this backup/backup#726

Though it was for the latest version of Atomic 1.1.99, I couldn't install the gem directly either, with or without sudo

That was also the last version of Atomic: "This gem has been deprecated and merged into Concurrent Ruby (http://concurrent-ruby.com)."

That's as far as I got, happy to play around and file an issue or two if supporting Raspberry Pi / Raspbian would something the project would be interested in supporting

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

@ntwb - Atomic might need extra packages to compile on Debian. If you can post the relevant output from gem_make.out, I can take a look.

Stephen Edgar

@ntwb

/usr/bin/ruby2.1 extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h
extconf failed, exit code 1

That's via gem_make.out via this error when installing:

pi@rpi-home:~ $ sudo gem install atomic
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing atomic:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

    /usr/bin/ruby2.1 extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /usr/lib/ruby/include/ruby.h

extconf failed, exit code 1

Gem files will remain installed in /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/atomic-1.1.99 for inspection.
Results logged to /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/extensions/arm-linux/2.1.0/atomic-1.1.99/gem_make.out

Stephen Edgar

@ntwb

Current versions:

pi@rpi-home:~ $ ruby -v
ruby 2.1.5p273 (2014-11-13) [arm-linux-gnueabihf]
pi@rpi-home:~ $ gem -v
2.2.2

I also just updated existing installed gems, as I'd previously not tried that, all up to date now and same issue

Stuart Ellis

@stuartellis

@ntwb - The “can’t find header” suggests that it is missing the development packages (the package name is “ruby-dev” on Debian-based systems).

If sudo apt-get install ruby-dev doesn’t fix it, you can capture a list of all of the currently installed packages with dpkg -l > packages.txt to see what you have. Feel free to post that package list on a Github gist or something, and post a link to it here.

Stephen Edgar

@ntwb

This may indeed have worked :)

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