Restoring Plakar Control Plane
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Warning
The restore process is currently manual. Automated restore support is under active development and will be available very soon.
This guide walks through restoring a Plakar Control Plane backup to a fresh appliance.
Step 1 — Start a new virtual appliance in bootstrap mode
#Deploy a new Plakar Control Plane virtual appliance and leave it in bootstrap mode without completing the initial setup wizard. Refer to the installation guide for platform-specific instructions on deploying the appliance.
Step 2 — Verify SSH access
#Confirm that you can connect to the new appliance over SSH using the plakar user:
ssh plakar@<appliance-address>Step 3 — Install Plakar OSS and configure the store
#On the new appliance, install the Plakar OSS client. Refer to the installation guide for instructions.
Once installed, configure the store where your backup snapshot is hosted. Refer to the quickstart guide for store configuration instructions.
Step 4 — Archive the snapshot to a local file
#Use the plakar CLI to export the backup snapshot as a compressed archive:
plakar -stdio at <store> archive -output pcp.tar.gz <snapshot_id>Replace <store> with the store URI and <snapshot_id> with the identifier of the snapshot you want to restore. This produces a pcp.tar.gz file in the current directory.
Step 5 — Copy the data into the running container
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Note
This section is in progress and will be updated soon.
Step 6 — Run the restore commands
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Note
This section is in progress and will be updated soon.
Step 7 — Reboot
#Reboot the appliance to apply all changes and start Plakar Control Plane with the restored configuration:
sudo reboot