Backup your Control Panel server to a remote location for easy disaster recovery

xyzulu

See the context here: https://community.enhance.com/d/397-hight-availibity-fault-tolerant-control-panel/27

Since Enhance have released documentation on how to move your Control Panel server to new hardware it's possible to see exactly which files are needed for disaster recovery. We've shared a small script we use to do this in one hit. It's here: https://gist.github.com/xyzulu/e04868d28baea53d7097098aac967098

Hope it helps someone

xyzulu

I've updated the script to now include the rca.pw file (though I am told it's best to back this up separate to the rest of your control panel). This file was recently added to the control panel migration instructions.

cosmoshosting

Excellent, thank you

lcs

Thank you for this xyzulu, this looks good. For a scripting noob like I am, could this be adapted to have some more variables at the top for user@domain?

Also, is there a way to update this to check if there are existing ssh keys on either/both sides, and/or prompt for credentials to auto-add them?

Currently we access the shell from our local terminal, and the root user has our public keys in it. I'd prefer to have a new keypair for the servers to communicate with eachother I guess. Maybe just the control panel server to drop backup files to the backup server?

I'm extremely new to Enhance, so maybe this isn't worth it or I'm not thinking about this correctly.

xyzulu

lcs For a scripting noob like I am, could this be adapted to have some more variables at the top for user@domain?

You're welcome to fork it and change it as you wish: https://gist.github.com/xyzulu/e04868d28baea53d7097098aac967098

Since Enhance have said this is a feature they plan to implement in the future, I'm not too invested in making this script work in many different ways. That being said, I am happy to help you with the transfer (scp and ssh) commands for your particular case if you want to share more details. Of course, don't share your keys.. but the location of the keys as well as the destination folder etc would be enough to help.

xyzulu

I've added the backup of DNS zones as well (if you have the DNS role on your control server) now.
It's been recently discovered that DNS is not backed up with website backups, so this is just a small tweak for some extra redundancy.

Edit: Tweaked this a little more so that /var/local/enhance/orchd/cloudflare.key is only backed up if it exists.