Restoration backup procedure documentation about the-bastion HOT 11 CLOSED

Creating a separate issue to avoid forgetting it. I still have the almost-finished draft on my plate, I'm expecting to finish it in the next few days.

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Hey @ldelelis , sorry for the abysmal time it took me to get this documentation out!

It's still pending review (and your comments may help!), but here it is:
https://github.com/ovh/the-bastion/blob/encryption/doc/sphinx/installation/restoring_from_backup.rst?plain=1

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Everything works great from my tests. Thanks for the help!

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Thanks for the work Stephane! Adding to the initial question: will the restoration docs cover how to deal with admin user(s) as well? From what I can tell, adding an admin requires an adjustment in bastion's config as well, so I'm wondering if this is dealt with from backups as well

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Yes, this'll be dealt with, as this info is saved in the backups. Side note: for now, only restoring on the same OS is supported, i.e. if your original bastion was under, say, Ubuntu 20.04, you should restore on an Ubuntu 20.04. Additional (not yet written) tooling will be needed to be able to restore cross-distro in a proper way. Will this be your case?

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That's fine, thanks! We'll always be working with the same distro and version, so (at least for now) we wouldn't need any other tooling

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Hello! Any news on this?

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@speed47 Bumping for visibility, I haven't heard back in a while

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https://ovh.github.io/the-bastion/installation/restoring_from_backup.html

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Looks great! Thanks for the work on this. I'll try to test recovering with this documentation and get back to you ASAP

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Thanks! Opening another issue for the helper script itself (which will also be used when setting up a new slave instance, to better manage potentially differing UIDs/GIDs before sync).

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