Scheduling backups in Cloud Storage

This page describes how to schedule backups for Cassandra in Cloud Storage. In this method, backups are stored in the specified Cloud Storage bucket.

To schedule Cassandra backups, perform the following steps:

Run the following create-service-account command to create a Google Cloud service account (SA) with the standard roles/storage.objectAdmin role. This SA role allows you to write backup data to Cloud Storage. Execute the following command in the hybrid-base-directory/hybrid-files directory:
```
./tools/create-service-account --env non-prod --dir ./service-accounts
```
This command creates a single service account named apigee-non-prod for use in non-production environments and places the downloaded key file in the ./service-accounts directory.
Note: If you prefer to create all the individual service accounts for a production environment, use the following command:
```
./tools/create-service-account --env prod --dir ./service-accounts
```
For more information about Google Cloud service accounts, see Creating and managing service accounts.
The create-service-account command saves a JSON file containing the service account private key. The file is saved in the same directory where the command executes. You will need the path to this file in the following steps.
Create a Cloud Storage bucket. Specify a reasonable data retention policy for the bucket. Apigee recommends a data retention policy of 15 days.
Open your overrides.yaml file.

Add the following cassandra.backup properties to enable backup. Do not remove any of the properties that are already configured.

Parameters

cassandra:
  ...

  backup:
    enabled: true
    serviceAccountPath: SA_JSON_FILE_PATH
    dbStorageBucket: CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET_PATH
    schedule: BACKUP_SCHEDULE_CODE
    cloudProvider: "GCP"  # For remote server backup set this to HYBRID (all caps)

  ...

Example

...

cassandra:
  storage:
    type: gcepd
    capacity: 50Gi
    gcepd:
      replicationType: regional-pd
  auth:
    default:
      password: "abc123"
    admin:
      password: "abc234"
    ddl:
      password: "abc345"
    dml:
      password: "abc456"
  nodeSelector:
    key: cloud.google.com/gke-nodepool
    value: apigee-data
  backup:
    enabled: true
    serviceAccountPath: "/Users/myhome/.ssh/my-cassandra-backup-sa.json"
    dbStorageBucket: "gs://myname-cassandra-backup"
    schedule: "45 23 * * 6"
    cloudProvider: "GCP"
    


  ...

Property	Description
`backup:enabled`	Backup is disabled by default. You must set this property to `true`.
`backup:serviceAccountPath`	`SA_JSON_FILE_PATH` The path on your filesystem to the service account JSON file that was downloaded when you ran the `./tools/create-service-account` command. You can also provide a relative file path. The path will be relative to the `hybrid-base-directory/hybrid-files` directory.
`backup:dbStorageBucket`	`CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET_PATH` The Cloud Storage bucket path in this format: `gs://BUCKET_NAME`. The `gs://` is required.
`backup:cloudProvider`	`GCP/HYBRID` For a Cloud Storage backup, set the property to `GCP`. For example, `cloudProvider: "GCP"`. For a remote server backup, set the property to `HYBRID`. For example, `cloudProvider: "HYBRID"`.
`backup:schedule`	`BACKUP_SCHEDULE_CODE` The time when the backup starts, specified in standard crontab syntax. Default: `0 2 * * ` Note:* Avoid scheduling a backup that starts a short time after you apply the backup configuration to your cluster. When you apply the backup configuration, Kubernetes recreates the Cassandra nodes. If the backup starts before the nodes restart, the first backup will fail and the subsequent backups will pass.

Apply the configuration changes to the new cluster. For example:
```
$APIGEECTL_HOME/apigeectl apply --datastore -f YOUR_OVERRIDES_FILE
```
Where YOUR_OVERRIDES_FILE is the path to the overrides file you just edited.

Verify the backup job. For example:

kubectl get cronjob -n apigee

NAME                      SCHEDULE     SUSPEND   ACTIVE   LAST SCHEDULE   AGE
apigee-cassandra-backup   33 * * * *   False     0        <none>          94s