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Status Under review
Workspace DataPower Gateway
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 26, 2024

DataPower daily/weekly/monthly backups to NFS in GUI

Hello all 

as title suggests it is to have a feature to export backups to NFS storage:

- page view:
- name of backup 
- time that backup it is performed (select time, day/week/month)
- (optional) where to offload backup eg. NFS (by default on local)

Idea comes out as we faced with "bug"/blocker after upgrading from 10.0.1.x to 10.5.0.9 we are not having backups (datapower seem can loopback on rest mgmt)
 
To simplify things would be a good idea to have backups integrated into DataPower functionality and choose offload.
Currently now client have a service:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
               xmlns:dp="http://www.datapower.com/extensions"
               xmlns:mgmt="http://www.datapower.com/schemas/management" extension-element-prefixes="dp"
               xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times">
       
        <!-- This transformation will extract and decode the backup xml or zip in the soap body then ftp it to a server-->
 
        <xsl:output method="xml"/>
 
        <xsl:template match="/">
               <xsl:call-template name="putFile">
                       <xsl:with-param name="BackUpFile">
                               <!-- Perform a domain backup request call through XML Management Interface -->
                               <dp:url-open target="xxxxx:5550/service/mgmt/current" response="responsecode">
                                      <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
                                              <env:Body>
                                                     <dp:request domain="default"
                                                                     xmlns:dp="http://www.datapower.com/schemas/management">
                                                             <dp:do-backup format="ZIP">
                                                                      <dp:domain name="all-domains"/>
                                                             </dp:do-backup>
                                                     </dp:request>
                                                     <!-- ************************************* -->
                                              </env:Body>
                                      </env:Envelope>
                               </dp:url-open>
                       </xsl:with-param>
               </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:template>
 
        <!-- function putFile will decode the encoded binary64 backup of domains response and ftp it to a location -->
        <xsl:template name="putFile">
               <xsl:param name="BackUpFile"/>
 
               <xsl:if test="$BackUpFile='' ">
                       <xsl:message dp:type="backup" dp:priority="alert">Backup request fails</xsl:message>
                       <dp:reject/>
               </xsl:if>
 
               <!-- Extract the export content string -->
               <xsl:variable name="encBackUpFile" select="string($BackUpFile//mgmt:file)"/>
                  
               <!-- Send it to an NFS Server -->
               <xsl:variable name="date" select="substring-before(date:date-time(),':')"/>
               <xsl:variable name="fileDate" select="concat('Bck', $date)"/>
               <xsl:variable name="filename" select="concat($fileDate,'prodlj.zip')"/>
               <xsl:variable name="nfs-put-url"
                               select="concat('dpnfs://NFSbackup/',$filename)"/>
               <dp:url-open target="{$nfs-put-url}" response="ignore" data-type="base64">
                       <xsl:value-of select="$encBackUpFile"/>
               </dp:url-open>
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Idea priority Urgent