ZTP Restore XOA From Backup

bnerickson

Hello,

I'm working on a provisioning template to rebuild my XOA server without any sort of user interaction. A few questions:

Assume XOA and all plugins are installed. When restoring from backup, is it ONLY necessary to restore the "XO config" in order to bring XOA back into service 100%?
If not, what else needs to be backed up and restored?
Using the xo-cli to restore the config from backup, may I presume the following command is correct and the data.json file is the config file I want to restore?

xo-cli xo.importConfig @=/tmp/config_backup/xo-config-backups/2f26913f-81a5-4fbd-af86-ce83f90e525b/20220331T070000Z/data.json

Just to be clear, I'm not talking about restoring any XCP-NG hosts. I'm specifically talking about restoring XOA on a new VM.

olivierlambert

Hi,

When you deploy a fresh XOA, it's not registered. But if you import your backup config into it, this should do everything needed to be ready to go for updates
So after importing the configuration, you need to run the updater multiple times.

bnerickson

Thanks, @olivierlambert . It looks like the restore mostly worked. There was one main issue:

After I restored the configuration, all of the plugins I had had to manually configure when I first installed XOA (auth-ldap, transport-email, and usage-report) were all disabled. When I tried to re-enable them, they failed with the "plugin not configured" error. However, when I expanded their configuration, it was still present thanks to the restore. What I had to do was manually change an arbitrary field in each plugin so that I could click the "Save Configuration" button. Then I was able to re-enable the plugin. Probably a bug I should report?

olivierlambert

Hmm let me ping @julien-f and/or @pdonias

I think configuration export should also save plugin configuration, if it's not the case it's indeed a missing feature

pdonias

Hi @bnerickson, indeed, the configurations are correctly imported but plugins aren't automatically "configured" when you import a config. We'll improve that, thanks for the report

markxc

on my side importing backup config in a new XO installation worked (Using Webinterface). (i build from sources). Only thing wich bugs are backup jobs - i had to open and resubmit every backup job to get them work...
br

Mark