Plakar Control Plane

The PCP integration lets Plakar Control Plane back up its own configuration and internal database, treating the appliance itself as a resource like any other. This makes it possible to recover from hardware failure, accidental misconfiguration, or a full appliance replacement.

For a full walkthrough of using this resource, see Backing Up Plakar Control Plane and Restoring Plakar Control Plane.

Inventory Management

The PCP resource always represents the local appliance, so no managed inventory can discover it. You must configure a self-managed inventory before adding it.

Adding PCP as a resource

Register the resource with no class or subclass, using localhost as the hostname. See Register the Plakar Control Plane resource and resources documentation for more information on how to set up resources on a self-managed inventory.

Backup flow

flowchart TD
  subgraph Appliance["Plakar Control Plane Appliance"]
    Config["Configuration files"]
    DB["Internal database"]
  end

  subgraph Plakar["Plakar Control Plane"]
    Source["PCP
Source app"]
    Backup["Backup process
Encrypt & deduplicate"]
  end

  Store["Kloset Store"]

  Source -->|"reads"| Config
  Source -->|"dumps"| DB
  Config --> Backup
  DB --> Backup
  Backup --> Store

Restoring from a PCP backup