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Bug 2112523

Summary: Satellite backup should be tar and not gzip
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: Pavel Moravec <pmoravec>
Component: Satellite MaintainAssignee: satellite6-bugs <satellite6-bugs>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Satellite QE Team <sat-qe-bz-list>
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Priority: low    
Version: 6.11.0CC: apatel, ehelms, kgaikwad
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OS: Linux   
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Description Pavel Moravec 2022-07-30 08:22:47 UTC
Description of problem:
Satellite backup creates a *.tar.gz file with usual content like:

config_files.tar.gz
.config.snar
metadata.yml
mongo_data.tar.gz
.mongo.snar
pgsql_data.tar.gz
.postgres.snar
.pulp.snar

Since three far far biggest files are gzips already and the rest are small files only, the backup calls gzip on gzipped data. That is redundant and costs some time (to gzip and also gunzip during restore).

We should either create just satellite-backup-${timestamp}.tar, or optionally (and maybe better) keep the config_files + mongo_data + pgsql_data in tar format "only".


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Sat 6.11 or any older.


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a (full) foreman-maintain backup .
2. Check the tar.gz backup contains tar.gz files inside.


Actual results:
tar.gz contains tar.gz inside


Expected results:
Change either one tar.gz -> tar


Additional info:
I do understand the change must be backward compatible, i.e. new f-m must be able to unpack tar.gz-in-tar.gz (but nothing else wrt. backward compatibility..?). Which makes the request bit complicated. But still the overall gain in compressing and extracting files is worth of it, I think.

Comment 1 Eric Helms 2023-01-13 18:18:44 UTC
How much time does the current gzip step add? That is, how much time would we be saving implementing this change?

Comment 2 Pavel Moravec 2023-08-08 07:44:28 UTC
I have to take my request back, since no *one* tar.gz of whole backup is created:

Sat6.13 offline backup:
/backup/satellite-backup-2023-08-07-15-37-18:
config_files.tar.gz  metadata.yml  mongo_data.tar.gz  pgsql_data.tar.gz  pulp_data.tar

Sat6.13 online backup:
/backup/satellite-backup-2023-08-07-15-49-56:
candlepin.dump  config_files.tar.gz  foreman.dump  metadata.yml  mongo_dump  pg_globals.dump  pulpcore.dump  pulp_data.tar

(similar content for e.g. 6.9 backups)

The satellite-backup.tar.gz had to be received from a customer as an extra manual activity, where the final gzip was the redundant one. So this is not a Satellite product issue.