Cray System Management Documentation > Cray System Management (CSM) Administration Guide > system layout service > Create a Backup of the SLS Postgres Database

Create a Backup of the SLS Postgres Database

Perform a manual backup of the contents of the SLS Postgres database. This backup can be used to restore the contents of the SLS Postgres database at a later point in time using the Restoring SLS Postgres cluster from backup procedure.

Prerequisites

Healthy SLS Postgres Cluster.

Use patronictl list on the SLS Postgres cluster to determine the current state of the cluster, and a healthy cluster will look similar to the following:

kubectl exec cray-sls-postgres-0 -n services -c postgres -it -- patronictl list
+ Cluster: cray-sls-postgres (6975238790569058381) ---+----+-----------+
|        Member       |    Host    |  Role  |  State  | TL | Lag in MB |
+---------------------+------------+--------+---------+----+-----------+
| cray-sls-postgres-0 | 10.44.0.40 | Leader | running |  1 |           |
| cray-sls-postgres-1 | 10.36.0.37 |        | running |  1 |         0 |
| cray-sls-postgres-2 | 10.42.0.42 |        | running |  1 |         0 |
+---------------------+------------+--------+---------+----+-----------+

Healthy SLS Service.

Verify all 3 SLS replicas are up and running:

kubectl -n services get pods -l cluster-name=cray-sls-postgres
NAME                  READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
cray-sls-postgres-0   3/3     Running   0          18d
cray-sls-postgres-1   3/3     Running   0          18d
cray-sls-postgres-2   3/3     Running   0          18d

Procedure

Create a directory to store the SLS backup files in:

BACKUP_LOCATION="/root"
export BACKUP_NAME="cray-sls-postgres-backup_`date '+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S'`"
export BACKUP_FOLDER="${BACKUP_LOCATION}/${BACKUP_NAME}"
mkdir -p "$BACKUP_FOLDER"

The SLS backup will be located at the following directory:

echo $BACKUP_FOLDER
/root/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44

Run the backup_sls_postgres.sh script to take a backup of the SLS Postgres:

/usr/share/doc/csm/scripts/operations/system_layout_service/backup_sls_postgres.sh

Example output:

~/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44 ~
SLS postgres backup file will land in /root/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44
Determining the postgres leader...
The SLS postgres leader is cray-sls-postgres-0
Using pg_dumpall to dump the contents of the SLS database...
PSQL dump is available at /root/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44.psql
Saving Kubernetes secret service-account.cray-sls-postgres.credentials
Saving Kubernetes secret slsuser.cray-sls-postgres.credentials
Saving Kubernetes secret postgres.cray-sls-postgres.credentials
Saving Kubernetes secret standby.cray-sls-postgres.credentials
Removing extra fields from service-account.cray-sls-postgres.credentials.yaml
Removing extra fields from slsuser.cray-sls-postgres.credentials.yaml
Removing extra fields from postgres.cray-sls-postgres.credentials.yaml
Removing extra fields from standby.cray-sls-postgres.credentials.yaml
Adding Kubernetes secret service-account.cray-sls-postgres.credentials to secret manifest
Adding Kubernetes secret slsuser.cray-sls-postgres.credentials to secret manifest
Adding Kubernetes secret postgres.cray-sls-postgres.credentials to secret manifest
Adding Kubernetes secret standby.cray-sls-postgres.credentials to secret manifest
Secret manifest is located at /root/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44.manifest
Performing SLS dumpstate...
SLS dumpstate is available at /root/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44/sls_dump.json
SLS Postgres backup is available at: /root/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44

Copy the backup folder off of the cluster, and store it in a secure location.

The BACKUP_FOLDER environment variable is the name of the folder to backup.
```
echo $BACKUP_FOLDER
```
/root/cray-sls-postgres-backup_2021-07-07_16-39-44 is the returned value in this example.

Optionally, create a tarball of the Postgres backup files:
```
cd $BACKUP_FOLDER && cd ..
tar -czvf $BACKUP_NAME.tar.gz $BACKUP_NAME
```