When you start Kiwi TCMS by running docker-compose up
(see here)
it will automatically create 2 volumes: kiwi_db_data and kiwi_uploads.
This blog post will outline how to backup these docker volumes.
Backing up the database
Kiwi TCMS is a Django application and the manage.py command provides an easy way
to dump and load the database contents. To export all contents on your docker host
execute:
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py dumpdata --all --indent 2 > database.json
This will create a file named database.json in the current directory, outside of the
running container!
You can restore the database contents by using the following commands:
# delete data from all tables
docker exec -it kiwi_web /bin/bash -c '/Kiwi/manage.py sqlflush | /Kiwi/manage.py dbshell'
# then reload the existing data
cat database.json | docker exec -i kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py loaddata --format json -
NOTE: depending on your scenario you may want to remove the existing volume
(docker-compose down && docker volume rm kiwi_db_data) and re-create the
DB schema (/Kiwi/manage.py migrate) before restoring the contents!
WARNING: the above steps are applicable to Kiwi TCMS 5.1 or above. On earlier
versions manage.py will fail due to various issues.
Backing up multi-tenant database
The kiwitcms-tenant add-on depends on the PostgreSQL database. It will create multiple DB schemas, one per tenant. To backup all tenants use the following command:
docker exec -i kiwi_db /bin/bash -c 'pg_dump --dbname=kiwi -F c' > backup.bak
This will create a file in the PostgreSQL custom database dump format which
contains all data and schema definitions. That is a binary file which can be read
with the pg_restore command.
To [drop and] restore the entire multi-tenant database:
docker volume rm kiwi_db_data
cat backup.bak | docker exec -i kiwi_db /bin/bash -c 'pg_restore --dbname=kiwi -v'
To [drop and] restore an individual tenant:
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py dbshell
kiwi=> DROP SCHEMA $tenant_name CASCADE;
....
DROP SCHEMA
kiwi=> CREATE SCHEMA $tenant_name;
CREATE SCHEMA
kiwi=>Ctrl+D
cat backup.bak | docker exec -i kiwi_db /bin/bash -c 'pg_restore --dbname=kiwi -v --schema $tenant_name'
WARNING: sqlflush | dbshell will not work when you have multiple DB schemas so you must use
the PostgreSQL database shell to manipulate the contents of the database!
Backing up file uploads
Uploaded files can easily be backed up with:
docker exec -it kiwi_web /bin/tar -cP /Kiwi/uploads > uploads.tar
and then restored:
cat uploads.tar | docker exec -i kiwi_web /bin/tar -x
You may also try the rsync command but be aware that it is not installed
by default!
The same approach may be used to backup /var/lib/mysql/ from the kiwi_db
container.
Backing up multi-tenant uploads
By default multi-tenant file uploads are stored under /Kiwi/uploads/tenant/$tenant_name.
You can archive all contents with the same procedure above. If you wish to restore
files per tenant you will have to upload the $tenant_name directory into the
docker volume.
Alternatives
By default both docker volumes created for Kiwi TCMS use the local driver
and are available under /var/lib/docker/volumes/<volume_name> on the host
running your containers. You can try backing them up from there as well.
Another alternative is to use the
docker-lvm-plugin
and create these volumes as LVM2 block devices. Then use
lvcreate -s command to create a snapshot volume. For more information see
chapter 2.3.5. Snapshot Volumes
from the LVM Administrator Guide for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Happy testing!