Walrus

Fast, Secure and Reliable System Backup, Set up in Minutes.

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Walrus is a fast, secure and reliable backup system suitable for modern infrastructure. With walrus, you can backup services like SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, etcd or a complete directory with a short interval and low overhead. It supports AWS S3, digitalocean spaces and any S3-compatible object storage service.

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Deployment

Download the latest walrus binary. Make it executable from everywhere.

$ export WALRUS_LATEST_VERSION=$(curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/Clivern/Walrus/releases/latest" | jq '.tag_name' | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/' | tr -d v)

$ curl -sL https://github.com/Clivern/Walrus/releases/download/v{$WALRUS_LATEST_VERSION}/walrus_{$WALRUS_LATEST_VERSION}_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz

Then install etcd cluster or single node, please refer to etcd docs or bin directory inside this repository.

Run Walrus Tower:

Create the tower configs file tower.config.yml from config.dist.yml. Something like the following:

Please make sure to update the apiKey and encryptionKey to a different random values.

# Tower configs
tower:
    # Env mode (dev or prod)
    mode: ${WALRUS_APP_MODE:-dev}
    # HTTP port
    port: ${WALRUS_API_PORT:-8000}
    # URL
    url: ${WALRUS_API_URL:-http://127.0.0.1:8000}
    # TLS configs
    tls:
        status: ${WALRUS_API_TLS_STATUS:-off}
        pemPath: ${WALRUS_API_TLS_PEMPATH:-cert/server.pem}
        keyPath: ${WALRUS_API_TLS_KEYPATH:-cert/server.key}

    # API Configs
    api:
        key: ${WALRUS_API_KEY:-6c68b836-6f8e-465e-b59f-89c1db53afca}
        encryptionKey: ${WALRUS_ENCRYPTION_KEY:-B?E(H+Mb}

    # Async Workers
    workers:
        # Queue max capacity
        buffer: ${WALRUS_WORKERS_CHAN_CAPACITY:-5000}
        # Number of concurrent workers
        count: ${WALRUS_WORKERS_COUNT:-4}

    # Runtime, Requests/Response and Walrus Metrics
    metrics:
        prometheus:
            # Route for the metrics endpoint
            endpoint: ${WALRUS_METRICS_PROM_ENDPOINT:-/metrics}

    # Application Database
    database:
        # database driver
        driver: ${WALRUS_DB_DRIVER:-etcd}

        etcd:
            # etcd database name or prefix
            databaseName: ${WALRUS_DB_ETCD_DB:-walrus}
            # etcd username
            username: ${WALRUS_DB_ETCD_USERNAME:- }
            # etcd password
            password: ${WALRUS_DB_ETCD_PASSWORD:- }
            # etcd endpoints
            endpoints: ${WALRUS_DB_ETCD_ENDPOINTS:-http://127.0.0.1:2379}
            # Timeout in seconds
            timeout: 30

    # Log configs
    log:
        # Log level, it can be debug, info, warn, error, panic, fatal
        level: ${WALRUS_LOG_LEVEL:-info}
        # output can be stdout or abs path to log file /var/logs/walrus.log
        output: ${WALRUS_LOG_OUTPUT:-stdout}
        # Format can be json
        format: ${WALRUS_LOG_FORMAT:-json}

The run the tower with systemd

walrus tower -c /path/to/tower.config.yml

Run Walrus Agent:

Create the agent configs file agent.config.yml from config.dist.yml. Something like the following:

# Agent configs
agent:
    # Env mode (dev or prod)
    mode: ${WALRUS_APP_MODE:-dev}
    # HTTP port
    port: ${WALRUS_API_PORT:-8001}
    # URL
    url: ${WALRUS_API_URL:-http://127.0.0.1:8001}
    # TLS configs
    tls:
        status: ${WALRUS_API_TLS_STATUS:-off}
        pemPath: ${WALRUS_API_TLS_PEMPATH:-cert/server.pem}
        keyPath: ${WALRUS_API_TLS_KEYPATH:-cert/server.key}

    # API Configs
    api:
        key: ${WALRUS_API_KEY:-56e1a911-cc64-44af-9c5d-8c7e72ec96a1}

    # Async Workers
    workers:
        # Queue max capacity
        buffer: ${WALRUS_WORKERS_CHAN_CAPACITY:-5000}
        # Number of concurrent workers
        count: ${WALRUS_WORKERS_COUNT:-4}

    # Tower Configs
    tower:
        url: ${WALRUS_TOWER_URL:-http://127.0.0.1:8000}
        # This must match the one defined in tower config file
        apiKey: ${WALRUS_TOWER_API_KEY:-6c68b836-6f8e-465e-b59f-89c1db53afca}
        # This must match the one defined in tower config file
        encryptionKey: ${WALRUS_ENCRYPTION_KEY:-B?E(H+Mb}
        # Time interval between agent ping checks
        pingInterval: ${WALRUS_CHECK_INTERVAL:-60}

    # Backup settings
    backup:
        tmpDir: ${WALRUS_BACKUP_TMP_DIR:-/tmp}

    # Log configs
    log:
        # Log level, it can be debug, info, warn, error, panic, fatal
        level: ${WALRUS_LOG_LEVEL:-info}
        # output can be stdout or abs path to log file /var/logs/walrus.log
        output: ${WALRUS_LOG_OUTPUT:-stdout}
        # Format can be json
        format: ${WALRUS_LOG_FORMAT:-json}

The run the agent with systemd

walrus agent -c /path/to/agent.config.yml

Now you can open the walrus tower dashboard http://127.0.0.1:8000 and start the setup.

To run the Admin Dashboard (Development Only):

Clone the project or your own fork:

$ git clone https://github.com/Clivern/Walrus.git

Create the dashboard config file web/.env from web/.env.dist. Something like the following:

VUE_APP_TOWER_URL=http://localhost:8080

Then you can either build or run the dashboard

# Install npm packages
$ cd web
$ npm install
$ npm install -g npx

# Add tower url to frontend
$ echo "VUE_APP_TOWER_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8000" > .env

$ cd ..

# Validate js code format
$ make check_ui_format

# Format UI
$ make format_ui

# Run Vuejs app
$ make serve_ui

# Build Vuejs app
$ make build_ui

# Package the Vuejs app
$ make package

Versioning

For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, Walrus is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines and release process is predictable and business-friendly.

See the Releases section of our GitHub project for changelogs for each release version of Walrus. It contains summaries of the most noteworthy changes made in each release.

Bug tracker

If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or annoyances please report them to our issue tracker at https://github.com/clivern/walrus/issues

Security Issues

If you discover a security vulnerability within Walrus, please send an email to hello@clivern.com

Contributing

We are an open source, community-driven project so please feel free to join us. see the contributing guidelines for more details.

License

© 2020, Clivern. Released under MIT License.

Walrus is authored and maintained by @clivern.