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BackupHelper - helper application for BCK appliance

Latest Version: 1.1.1

Functional Overview

This application works in conjuction with the BCK appliance to enable applications to backup or restore a copy of themselves using remote services such as Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3), Nirvanix, Layerd Technologies DynaVol, ftp and sftp.

ALERT! The BackupHelper application is provisioned by the BCK appliance and is not intended to be provisioned or configured manually, either by regular users or maintainers.


Boundary

Properties

Property Name Type Description
in_ip IP IP address which provides monitoring services to the web interface of the BCK appliance. This property is mandatory
out_ip IP IP address for the external interface used to access the grid controller. This property is mandatory.
netmask IP Netmask for the network on which in_ip and out_ip reside. Default: 255.255.255.0
gateway IP Address of IP gateway used to route traffic. This property must be specified in order to access hosts outside of the IP network on which BackupHelper is running. This property is mandatory.
dns1 IP Primary DNS server for BackupHelper. This property is mandatory.
dns2 IP Secondary DNS server for BackupHelper. Default: empty. This property is optional.
env String Reserved for use by BCK and BackupHelper.

Resources

Resource Minimum Maximum Default
CPU 0.3 0.3 0.3
Memory 272 MB 272MB 272 MB
Bandwidth 4 Mbps 1.6G Mbps 50 Mbps

User Volumes

None.

Application Volumes

The BackupHelper application has the following volume:

Volume Description
content File system containing scripts, logs and web interface. This volume should not be modified.

Implementation details

Application Architecture

BackupHelper has the following components:

  • one firewalled input gateway
  • one web server
  • one content file server
  • one firewalled network output gateway

The application infrastructure is shown below:

BackupHelper.png

Notes

Questions and Comments

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