How to schedule automatic backups in teamcity? - backup

Question

We are using Teamcity 6.5.6 professional version, which gives me the option to run a backup but I do not see any option to schedule it to a particular time.
I am not sure if this version of teamcity even supports scheduled backups. If it is not possible through teamcity GUI, I wonder if there is any other option?
Could someone please help?
Thanks.

Answer 1

I wrote Powershell script for TeamCity auto backups, which you can schedule and run backup.
Here's the code:
function Execute-HTTPPostCommand() {
param(
[string] $url,
[string] $username,
[string] $password
)
$authInfo = $username + ":" + $password
$authInfo = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes($authInfo))
$webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
$webRequest.ContentType = "text/html"
$PostStr = [System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes("")
$webrequest.ContentLength = $PostStr.Length
$webRequest.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + $authInfo
$webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true
$webRequest.Method = "POST"
$requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()
$requestStream.Write($PostStr, 0, $PostStr.length)
$requestStream.Close()
[System.Net.WebResponse] $resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();
$rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();
[System.IO.StreamReader] $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;
[string] $results = $sr.ReadToEnd();
return $results;
}
function Execute-TeamCityBackup() {
param(
[string] $server,
[string] $addTimestamp,
[string] $includeConfigs,
[string] $includeDatabase,
[string] $includeBuildLogs,
[string] $includePersonalChanges,
[string] $fileName
)
$TeamCityURL = [System.String]::Format("{0}/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?addTimestamp={1}&includeConfigs={2}&includeDatabase={3}&includeBuildLogs={4}&includePersonalChanges={5}&fileName={6}",
$server,
$addTimestamp,
$includeConfigs,
$includeDatabase,
$includeBuildLogs,
$includePersonalChanges,
$fileName);
Execute-HTTPPostCommand $TeamCityURL "USER" "PASSWORD"
}
$server = "http://YOUR_SERVER"
$addTimestamp = $true
$includeConfigs = $true
$includeDatabase = $true
$includeBuildLogs = $true
$includePersonalChanges = $true
$fileName = "TeamCity_Backup_"
Execute-TeamCityBackup $server $addTimestamp $includeConfigs $includeDatabase $includeBuildLogs $includePersonalChanges $fileName

Answer 2

You could use the REST API to run the backup. We actually use TeamCity to run a scheduled build at midnight each day. That build makes a call to the rest api to do the backup.

Answer 3

If you don't want to write programs to perform your task, simply run this command:
wget --user=*** --password=*** "http://localhost:8085/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?includeConfigs=true&includeDatabase=true&includeBuildLogs=true&fileName=ScheduledBackup-" --post-data=
where stars should be replaced with your TeamCity login information.
On Windows, you can get WGET as a part of Cygwin package

Answer 4

For those who wants to trigger builds from Mac OS (use "command line" runner on TeamCity):
curl --basic --user user:password -X POST "http://team.city.server:8111/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?includeConfigs=true&includeDatabase=true&includeBuildLogs=true&fileName=ScheduledBackup"

Answer 5

We run maintainDB.cmd and schedule it with the Windows Task Scheduler, it's a one line command and requires no extra software. maintainDB is fully documented in the TeamCity documentation.

Answer 6

You can also use the environment variable to have the team city server address resolve at build time:
curl --basic --user user:pasword -X POST "%teamcity.serverUrl%/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?includeConfigs=true&includeDatabase=true&includeBuildLogs=true&fileName=ScheduledBackup"

Answer 7

Starting from #Ivan Leonenko script I added some lines of code to wait that the backup ends before exit.
function Execute-HTTPCommand() {
param(
[string] $method,
[string] $url,
[string] $username,
[string] $password
)
$authInfo = $username + ":" + $password
$authInfo = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes($authInfo))
$webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
$webRequest.ContentType = "text/html"
$PostStr = [System.Text.Encoding]::Default.GetBytes("")
$webrequest.ContentLength = $PostStr.Length
$webRequest.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic " + $authInfo
$webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true
$webRequest.Method = $method
if ($method -ne "GET")
{
$requestStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream()
$requestStream.Write($PostStr, 0, $PostStr.length)
$requestStream.Close()
}
[System.Net.WebResponse] $resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();
$rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();
[System.IO.StreamReader] $sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;
[string] $results = $sr.ReadToEnd();
return $results;
}
function Execute-TeamCityBackup() {
param(
[string] $server,
[string] $addTimestamp,
[string] $includeConfigs,
[string] $includeDatabase,
[string] $includeBuildLogs,
[string] $includePersonalChanges,
[string] $fileName,
[string] $username,
[string] $password
)
$TeamCityURL = [System.String]::Format("{0}/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup?addTimestamp={1}&includeConfigs={2}&includeDatabase={3}&includeBuildLogs={4}&includePersonalChanges={5}&fileName={6}",
$server,
$addTimestamp,
$includeConfigs,
$includeDatabase,
$includeBuildLogs,
$includePersonalChanges,
$fileName);
Write-Host "Starting TeamCity backup"
Execute-HTTPCommand "POST" $TeamCityURL $username $password
}
function Wait-TeamCityBackup() {
param(
[string] $server,
[string] $username,
[string] $password
)
$GetBackupStatusUrl = [System.String]::Format("{0}/httpAuth/app/rest/server/backup",
$server);
do {
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
$backupStatus = Execute-HTTPCommand "GET" $GetBackupStatusUrl $username $password
Write-Host $backupStatus
} while ($backupStatus -eq 'Running')
}
$server = "http://YOUR_SERVER"
$addTimestamp = $true
$includeConfigs = $true
$includeDatabase = $true
$includeBuildLogs = $true
$includePersonalChanges = $true
$fileName = "TeamCity_Backup_"
$username = "USERNAME" # Must be a TeamCity Admin
$password = "PASSWORD"
Execute-TeamCityBackup $server $addTimestamp $includeConfigs $includeDatabase $includeBuildLogs $includePersonalChanges $fileName $username $password
Wait-TeamCityBackup $server $username $password