Bug 1374080

Summary: [RFE] katello-backup saves DB directories instead of dumping DB via database tooling
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: Chris Duryee <cduryee>
Component: Backup & RestoreAssignee: Christine Fouant <cfouant>
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Description Chris Duryee 2016-09-07 22:26:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

If you run katello-backup, it will save the postgres and mongo databases. For example, running "katello-backup --skip-pulp-content <path-to-backup-dir>" will result in a large backup that contains journal files and such.

Instead, katello-backup can use mongodump/mongoimport and pg_dump/pg_restore to back up and restore the two databases. This would make the backup files significantly smaller, and also easier to work with for debugging purposes.

NOTE: this would introduce an incompatibility between older backups and newer versions of katello-backup, so we would likely need a new option called '--small-db-dumps' or similar (not sure on best wording here).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 6.2.1
Comment 2 Chris Duryee 2016-09-08 00:16:43 UTC 
closing as notabug, it would likely take more time to dump/restore in the dump format than to download and extract.