Installation and Configuration of Standalone Backup Server

Backup server limitations

• The backup server cannot back up files if you are using S3 backend storage.
• The backup server cannot back up or restore files if storage is encrypted.
• When the backup server uses the HTTP protocol for downloads, it cannot scale for larger installations. We recommend using the Rsync method for larger installations.
• If backup is performed during peak production time, system performance may be affected.
  
  

Recommendations for best performance

• Configure FileCloud target backup only in one web node in the HA setup.
• Route traffic via private network. 

Installation

Follow the installation procedures at FileCloud Backup Server Installation.

Configuration of standalone backup server for HA

1. Follow the configuration steps at FileCloud Backup Server Configuration.
2. Add the following code to backupagent.php.
   

   // ... Server URL
   define("BACKUPAGENT_ACCESS_KEY", "filecloudbackups" );
     
   //Additional mongodump params
   //Use this if you have additional params to be passed to mongodump command
   define("BACKUPAGENT_MONGODUMP_PARAMS", "--host "rs0/ hostname of Mongo1,hostname of Mongo2,
   hostname of Mongo3" --username dbuser --password password --authenticationDatabase admin " );

3. If your installation is using a non-default MongoDB data path, add the following line:
   

   Windows:
   define("BACKUPAGENT_DBDATA_PATH", "D:\\xampp\\mongodb\\bin\\data" );
   
   RHEL:
   define("BACKUPAGENT_DBDATA_PATH","/var/lib/mongo");