How to do Backup/Restore of DU VM In LTS2 Environment

Problem

How to take a backup of your DU management VM and restore it from the backup tar file.

Environment

• Platform9 Edge Cloud - LTS2 Airctl 5.6.6-623

Procedure

Backup the Management plane VM via management or DU host.

# /opt/pf9/airctl/airctl backup --outdir /root/ --config /opt/pf9/airctl/conf/airctl-config.yaml --verbose

Restore the Management plane VM via management host or DU host.

# /opt/pf9/airctl/airctl stop

# /opt/pf9/airctl/airctl restore --in /root/backup.tar.gz --config /opt/pf9/airctl/conf/airctl-config.yaml

# /opt/pf9/airctl/airctl --config /opt/pf9/airctl/conf/airctl-config.yaml advanced-ddu scale-du up