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nxs-backup

nxs-backup is a tool for creating and delivery backups, rotating it locally and on remote storages, compatible with GNU/Linux distributions.

Introduction

Full data backup
- File backups:
- Discrete files backups
- Incremental files backups
- Database backups:
- Regular backups of MySQL/Mariadb/Percona (5.7/8.0/all versions)
- Xtrabackup (2.4/8.0) of MySQL/Mariadb/Percona (5.7/8.0/all versions)
- Regular backups of PostgreSQL (9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/all versions)
- Basebackups of PostgreSQL (9/10/11/12/13/14/15/all versions)
- Backups of MongoDB (3.0/3.2/3.4/3.6/4.0/4.2/4.4/5.0/6.0/7.0/all versions)
- Backups of Redis (all versions)
- Support of user-defined scripts that extend functionality
Upload and manage backups to the remote storages:
- S3 (Simple Storage Service that provides object storage through a web interface. Supported by clouds e.g. AWS, GCP)
- SSH (SFTP)
- FTP
- CIFS (SMB)
- NFS
- WebDAV
Fine-tune the database backup process with additional options for optimization purposes
Notifications about events of the backup process via email and webhooks
Built-in generator of the configuration files to expedite initial setup
Easy to read and maintain configuration files with clear transparent structure
Possibility to restore backups by standard file/database tools (nxs-backup is not required)
Support of Environment variables in configuration files

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/nixys/nxs-backup.git

Go to on-premise directory
```
cd nxs-backup/.deploy/on-premise/
```
Install nxs-backup, just download and unpack archive for your CPU architecture.
```
curl -L https://github.com/nixys/nxs-backup/releases/latest/download/nxs-backup-amd64.tar.gz -o /tmp/nxs-backup.tar.gz
tar xf /tmp/nxs-backup.tar.gz -C /tmp
sudo mv /tmp/nxs-backup /usr/sbin/nxs-backup
sudo chown root:root /usr/sbin/nxs-backup
```
[!NOTE] nxs-backup is built for the following processor architectures: amd64 (x86_64), arm (armv7/armv8), arm64 (aarch64). If you need specific version of nxs-backup, or different architecture, you can find it on release page.
Check that installation successful:
```
sudo nxs-backup --version
```
Generate configuration files like described here or update provided nxs-backup.conf and jobs configs in cond.d dir with your parameters (see Settings for details)
For starting nxs-backup process run:
```
sudo nxs-backup start
```

Go to docker compose directory
```
cd nxs-backup/.deploy/docker-compose/
```
Update provided nxs-backup.conf file with your parameters (see Settings for details)
Launch the nxs-backup with command:
```
docker compose up -d --pull
```

Install nxs-universal-chart (Helm 3 is required):

helm repo add nixys https://registry.nixys.io/chartrepo/public

Find examples of helm values here
Fill up your values.yaml with correct nxs-backup Settings
Launch nxs-backup with command:
```
helm -n $NAMESPACE_SERVICE_NAME install nxs-backup nixys/nxs-universal-chart -f values.yaml
```
where $NAMESPACE_SERVICE_NAME is the namespace in which to back up your data

For detailed information on using the tool please visit nxs-backup.io.

Following features are already in backlog for our development team and will be released soon:

Encrypting of backups
Restore backups by nxs-backup
API for remote management and metrics monitoring
Web interface for management
Proprietary startup scheduler
New backup types (Clickhouse, Elastic, lvm, etc.)
Programmatic implementation of backup creation instead of calling external utilities
Ability to set limits on resources utilization
Update help info

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nxs-backup is released under the Apache-2.0 license.