Reconnecting a Yandex BareMetal server to Cloud Backup

If you deploy a backup of one server to another, the original server's connection to Cloud Backup becomes outdated. To continue backing up the original server and avoid conflicts with the new one, upgrade the source server connection to Cloud Backup:

1. To connect a BareMetal server to Cloud Backup, you need a service account with at least the backup.user and baremetal.editor roles. Create one or assign the required roles to an existing service account.

2. Get an IAM token.

3. Reconnect to Cloud Backup from the outdated server:

   Linux

   1. Connect to the server over SSH.

   2. On your server, install curl, wget, gawk, uuid-dev, and uuidgen.

      Note

      If you are using a distribution other than Ubuntu, install the specified tools using your package manager.

      sudo apt install curl
      sudo apt install wget
      sudo apt install gawk
      sudo apt install uuid-dev
      sudo apt install uuid-runtime
      

   3. Update your connection to Cloud Backup:

      wget https://storage.yandexcloud.net/backup-distributions/agent_reinit_bms.sh
      sudo bash agent_reinit_bms.sh -t=<IAM_token>
      

      Where -t is the IAM token you got earlier.

      Result:

      ...
      Deleting old resource bound for instance_id epdoe4g6dbq4******** and resource_id: F07543A1-BDC1-415A-A143-C18E********
      Updating ids in Cloud Backup
      Finished
      

4. Make sure the server is connected to Cloud Backup:

   CLI

   If you do not have the Yandex Cloud CLI yet, install and initialize it.

   The folder used by default is the one specified when creating the CLI profile. To change the default folder, use the yc config set folder-id <folder_ID> command. You can also specify a different folder for any command using --folder-name or --folder-id. If you access a resource by its name, the search will be limited to the default folder. If you access a resource by its ID, the search will be global, i.e., through all folders based on access permissions.

   Get a list of BareMetal servers connected to Cloud Backup:

   yc backup resource list --type bms
   

   Where --type is the resource type.

   Result:

   compute_instance_id: epd5sk4auijm********
   created_at: "2024-11-17T10:29:40.436155166Z"
   updated_at: "2024-11-17T10:32:54.580592713Z"
   online: true
   enabled: true
   status: IDLE
   next_backup_time: "2024-11-24T00:00:00Z"
   resource_id: ad216376-a8d7-4c28-9a8d-b4ad********
   is_active: true
   init_status: REGISTRED
   metadata: "null"
   type: BMS
   

5. Link the server to a backup policy.