27장. Backup and restore

The ability to backup and restore your system is integrated into the Ansible Automation Platform setup playbook. For more information, see the Backup and restore clustered environments section.

The Ansible Automation Platform setup playbook is invoked as setup.sh from the path where you unpacked the platform installer tarball. It uses the same inventory file used by the install playbook. The setup script takes the following arguments for backing up and restoring:

As the root user, call setup.sh with the appropriate parameters and the Ansible Automation Platform backup or restored as configured:

root@localhost:~# ./setup.sh -b
root@localhost:~# ./setup.sh -r

Backup files are created on the same path that setup.sh script exists. You can change it by specifying the following EXTRA_VARS:

root@localhost:~# ./setup.sh -e 'backup_dest=/path/to/backup_dir/' -b

A default restore path is used unless you provide EXTRA_VARS with a non-default path, as shown in the following example:

root@localhost:~# ./setup.sh -e 'restore_backup_file=/path/to/nondefault/backup.tar.gz' -r

Optionally, you can override the inventory file used by passing it as an argument to the setup script:

setup.sh -i <inventory file>