Relax-and-Recover Automated Testing with Bareos
summary
Project automates full recovery tests against a Bareos backup server, claiming to test every commit and unstable/stable release by provisioning VMs, running backups, then PXE-booting recovery images and checking results. The framework uses Ansible, Vagrant, KVM/VirtualBox to build client and server VMs, performs backups to Bareos, boots a recovery VM, and runs inspec validations and custom scripts to assert filesystem and config restoration. Demo mostly runs end-to-end; occasional manual fallback appears for flaky PXE or NFS steps.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker welcome
- 3:57Why automated disaster recovery testing
- 7:30Testing as quality assurance
- 16:06Automated testing challenges
- 19:15Live demo setup overview
- 27:26Running automated tests
- 32:27Live demonstration start
- 40:24Live recovery demonstration
- 44:00Testing results and insights
- 49:26Q&A and closing remarks
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