Installation

What are the prerequisites?

Woodstock backup needs the following softwares to work :

• Redis: To manage the queue of backup
• Btrfs: To manage the storage of backup (ideally the mount point should be dedicated to the backup storage)
• NodeJS 10: To run the application
• The transpiled application: without it, it can't work

Theorically if the btrfs storage is shared, it's possible to run multiple instances of the same application on the same server.

Install with docker

-Docker needs redis to store bull queue.

• The backup storage should be a btrfs volume.
• The docker image need SYS_ADMIN capability.

version: "2"

services:
  woodstock:
    image: phoenix741/woodstock-backup:1
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
    links:
      - redis
    environment:
      - REDIS_HOST=redis
      - REDIS_PORT=6379
      - MAX_BACKUP_TASK=2
      - NODE_ENV=production
    volumes:
      - "backups_storage:/backups"
    cap_add:
      - SYS_ADMIN
  redis:
    image: "bitnami/redis:5.0"
    environment:
      # ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD is recommended only for development.
      - ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes
      - REDIS_DISABLE_COMMANDS=FLUSHDB,FLUSHALL
    ports:
      - "6379:6379"
    volumes:
      - "redis_data:/bitnami/redis/data"

volumes:
  redis_data:
  backups_storage:
    driver: local
    driver_opts:
      type: none
      device: /var/lib/woodstock/
      o: bind

Install with a deb package

To install woodstock-backup on a debian system, download the deb package.

• The /var/lib/woodstock directory needs to be a btrfs volume.
• Woodstock has a dependencie on redis to store bull queue.

sudo dpkg -i woodstock-backup_1.0.0_all.deb
sudo nano /etc/woodstock-backup/default

You can edit environment variable necessary to launch woodstock.

Install manually

First install the linux distribution of your choice that satisfy the previous criteria. On this distribution install redis, and nodejs. It's important to secure the connection of redis to avoid everybody to connect to your redis instance.

apt install debian:10
# The previous line is a joke ;)
# but in the next, example will be based on debian.
apt install redis nodejs

Ensure you have a mount point that use btrfs, ideally the mount point should be dedicated to the backup.

If you want the woodstock backup not be executed as root, you must add attribute user_subvol_rm_allowed. You can activate the compression of btrfs depending or not.

mkfs.btrfs /dev/sdXYY
echo << EOF>> /etc/fstab
/dev/sdXYY /var/lib/woodstock btrfs rw,noatime,compress=zstd:9,user_subvol_rm_allowed,noauto  0  0
EOF

Clone and build the project

git clone https://gogs.shadoware.org/ShadowareOrg/woodstock-backup.git woodstock-backup

cd client
npm i
npm run build -- --prod

cd ../server
npm i
npm run build

cp ./config/woodstock-backup.service /etc/systemd/user/woodstock-backup.service
# HERE: You should edit the file /etc/systemd/user/woodstock-backup.systemd to put
# the environment variable with the value of your configuration
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable woodstock-backup
sudo systemctl start woodstock-backup

The available environment variables are :

• STATIC_PATH: should be the path of the file in the client directory (example: /opt/woodstock/client/dist)
• BACKUP_PATH: should be the path of the storage (on a btrfs drive, example ̀var/lib/woodstock/woodstock
• REDIS_HOST: the host where redis is installed
• REDIS_PORT: the port of redis to connect