---
title: CEPH backup with Benji
url: https://devopstales.github.io/linux/ceph_backup_benji/
date: 2020-02-24
keywords: rook, ceph, benji, backup
---


In this article I will show you how to use benji to backup CEPH RBD incrementally.

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Benji Backup is a block based deduplicating backup software. It builds on the excellent foundations and concepts of backy² by Daniel Kraft.

Benji requires `Python 3.6.5` or newer because older Python versions have some shortcomings in the `concurrent.futures` implementation which lead to an excessive memory usage. So in this example I will use docker to make easier to implement.

```
mkdir -p /opt/benji/config/
mkdir -p /opt/benji/postgresql/data

nano /opt/benji/docker-compose.yaml
version: '3.5'

services:
  benji:
    image: elementalnet/benji-k8s:0.5.0
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - /etc/ceph:/etc/ceph
      - /backup/benji-ceph:/data
      - /opt/benji/config/benji.yaml:/benji/etc/benji.yaml
      - /opt/benji/config/backup-ceph:/benji/scripts/backup-ceph
      - /opt/benji/config/crontab:/benji/etc/crontab

  postgres:
    image: postgres:11
    restart: always
    environment:
      - "POSTGRES_DB=benji-prod"
      - "POSTGRES_USER=benji-prod"
      - "POSTGRES_PASSWORD=Password1"
    volumes:
      - /opt/benji/postgresql/data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
```

### Create benji config
```
nano /opt/benji/config/benji.yaml
configurationVersion: '1'
databaseEngine: postgresql://benji-prod:Password1@postgres:5432/benji-prod
defaultStorage: storage-1
storages:
  - name: storage-1
    storageId: 1
    module: file
    configuration:
      path: /data
ios:
  - name: rbd
    module: rbd
```

### Create backup script
```
nano /opt/benji/config/backup-ceph
#!/bin/bash

. common.sh
. prometheus.sh
. ceph.sh
. hooks.sh

FSFREEZE=no
BENJI_INSTANCE:devopstales
POOL=testpool
EXCLUDE="test1"

# benji::backup::ceph test/test test test test/test

echo "POOL :" $POOL;
for IMAGE in `rbd ls $POOL | grep -v @ | grep -v $EXCLUDE`;
do
#   echo $POOL/$IMAGE
   benji::backup::ceph $POOL/$IMAGE $POOL $IMAGE $POOL/$IMAGE
done
```

### Create crontab
```
nano /opt/benji/config/crontab
BENJI_INSTANCE:devopstales
00 00 * * * root backup-ceph
00 04 * * * root benji-command enforce days8,weeks3,months2
00 05 * * * root benji-command cleanup
30 05 * * * root benji-versions-status
00 06 * * * root benji-command batch-deep-scrub
```

### Perform a backup
```
cd /opt/benji/
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it benji_benji_1 bash
benji database-init
benji backup rbd:testpool/test2 devopstales
benji ls
```