Block Backup and Restore of a Multipass Instance using Elastio

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Aim: To Back up and mount restore of Multipass Block Devices

Website: https://docs.elastio.com/

Installation and set-up

1. Install and configure AWS

• curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
• unzip awscliv2.zip
• sudo ./aws/install
• Run aws --version
• Configure credentials using aws configure

2. Elastio CLI Installation

• sudo /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastio/elastio-stack/master/scripts/install-elastio.sh)"

• elastio --version ----to verify

  Create a new vault (optional)

  elastio vault init vault-name>

  elastio vault init alpha
  

  Run: elastop vault list : alpha

3. Block Backup of Multipass instance

On Multipass instance

• Do an lsblk to identify the blocks

• Back up all the block devices using the following command:

  sudo -E elastio block backup <dev> --vault <vault name>

• /dev/sad1

  sudo -E elastio block backup /dev/sda1 --vault alpha 
  

• /dev/sda14

• sudo -E elastio block backup /dev/sda14 --vault alpha
  

• /dev/sad15

  sudo -E elastio block backup /dev/sda15 --vault alpha
  

4. Mount backup points on multipass instance

On multipass instance

• Mount the recovery point using the following commands:

  sudo -E elastio mount rp --id r-dgbxhihiugmqm8r3zkjqw3yy

• In the image below, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda15 are both mounted on the instance

• Success

5. Cleaning up the mounts multipass instance

How to manage your mount points

5.1 Return the list of mounted RPs

- sudo -E elastio mount list

5.2 Unmount a recovery point by RP ID

- sudo -E elastio mount umount --id <rp-id>

5.3 Unmount by mount point*

- sudo -E elastio mount umount --mp <mount-point>

5.4 Unmount all

- sudo -E elastio mount umount --all

6. Clean Up Elastio Deployment

You can clean elastio deployment in the following steps:

6.1. Delete the Elastio vault

Use the following command to delete an Elastio vault:

elastio vault delete --vault <vault-name>

6.2. Destroy the Elastio Stack

The Elastio stack is the CloudFormation stack and should be manually deleted after first removing the Cloud Connector. The Cloud Connector is found in, and can be removed from, the CloudFormation section in the AWS console.

Use the following command to destroy the CloudFormation stack:

elastio stack destroy

6.3. Remove the Elastio Shell

Run the following command to remove the Elastio Shell:

pip3 uninstall elastio_shell

6.4. Remove the Elastio CLI

The next step when cleaning up the Elastio Deployment is to uninstall or remove the Elastio CLI. This is achieved in the following manner.

Use the following script to uninstall the Elastio CLI and Elastio Snap:

sudo /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastio/elastio-stack/master/scripts/install-elastio.sh) $0" -- -u