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Restore Splunk UBA using the restore script

After you have created a backup, restore Splunk UBA using the /opt/caspida/bin/utils/uba-restore.sh script. View the command line options by using the --help option.

See the following table for the options you can use in the script:

Option Description
--dateformat %FORMAT% Override the default date/time format for the backup folder name. If this option is not used, the folder name is based on ISO 8601 format YYYY-MM-DD. To specify a backup folder name in the typical format used in the United States, specify MM-DD-YYYY. Using this option also overrides the date/time format of the logging messages.
--folder %FOLDER% Override the source folder to perform the restore. By default the script looks for the restore archive in the default /var/vcap/ubabackup directory. If you used the --folder option when creating the backup to store the backup in a different directory, specify that same directory using the --folder option when restoring Splunk UBA.
--log-time Add additional logging for how long each section takes, including all function calls and tasks. Use this option to help troubleshoot issues if your restore is taking a long time.
--no-data Only restore the configuration. Use this option when restoring a backup that was created using --no-data flag.
--no-time Don't log the amount of time taken for each task.
--reset-admin-pass Reset the admin password to the system default changeme.
--skip-start-live-ds Don't start the live data sources.
--validate Validate that a restore can be successfully performed, but do not actually perform the restore.

Example restore workflow

The following is an example of a restore workflow:

  1. Log in to the management node of your Splunk UBA deployment as caspida using SSH.
  2. Navigate to the /opt/caspida/bin/utils folder:
    cd /opt/caspida/bin/utils
  3. Run the restore script. This example is restoring from a backup file in the /home/caspida directory from a single node system to another single node system. The following shows the command and its output. Some repetitive portions of the command output are truncated for brevity:
    caspida@ip-172-31-29-247:~/bin$ ./uba-restore.sh --folder /var/vcap/ubabackup/2020-10-08_07-44-59
    UBA Restore Script - Version 2.1.5
    Restore started at: Thu Oct  8 15:25:07 UTC 2020
    Restore running on: uba-restore.splunk.com
    Logfile:            /var/log/caspida/uba-restore-2020-10-08_15-25-07.log
    Script Name:        uba-restore.sh
    Script SHA:         fa544f7bfc291dcc83b3455072682a77167b3de6f1a014b07fff042674c47c4a (sha256sum)
    Parsing any CLI args
    - Set source folder to /var/vcap/ubabackup/2020-10-08_07-44-59
    UBA version: 5.0.3
    Node Count: 1
    Backup Node Count: 1
    Validating summary file
    WARNING: The hostnames from the backup/restore hosts differ, this will be a migration
    > Time taken: 0.111 seconds
    Validating backup files
    > Time taken: 0.012 seconds
    Validating UBA version
    > Time taken: 0.022 seconds
    Execution Mode: Migration
    Will restore/migrate from a 1-node backup to a 1-node cluster
    Checking hypervisor and network configuration
    > Time taken: 0.018 seconds
    Testing SSH connectivity to UBA nodes
    > Time taken: 1.327 seconds
    Retrieving system information for each UBA node
    > Time taken: 5.272 seconds
    Attempting to retrieve the IP of each node (new)
    > Time taken: 0.009 seconds
    Attempting to retrieve the IP of each node (old)
    > Time taken: 0.011 seconds
    Stopping UBA (stop-all)
    > Time taken: 223.002 seconds
    Starting PostgreSQL
    > Time taken: 3.143 seconds
    Logging PostgreSQL sparkserverregistry table (pre-restore)
    > Time taken: 0.392 seconds
    Restoring PostgreSQL caspidadb database on UBA node 1 (ip-172-31-29-247)
    > Time taken: 12.929 seconds
    Restoring PostgreSQL metastore database on UBA node 1 (ip-172-31-29-247)
    > Time taken: 2.405 seconds
    Performing reset of connector stats/JMS schemas
    > Time taken: 0.772 seconds
    Stopping PostgreSQL
    > Time taken: 0.922 seconds
    Restoring timeseries data
    > Time taken: 0.644 seconds
    Backing up existing uba-system-env.sh/uba-tuning.properties
    Restoring local configurations
    > Time taken: 0.003 seconds
    Restoring UBA rules
    > Time taken: 0.007 seconds
    Restoring uba-system-env.sh/uba-tuning.properties
    Starting UBA (start-all --no-caspida)
    Checking that HDFS isnt in safe-mode
    - Safe mode is disabled
    > Time taken: 1.910 seconds
    Checking if the /user folder exists in HDFS
    - Folder exists, will attempt to remove
    Removing existing Hadoop HDFS content (attempt 1)
    > Time taken: 2.104 seconds
    Waiting for 10 seconds before proceeding
    Checking if the /user folder exists in HDFS
    - Folder has been removed, will continue
    Restoring Hadoop HDFS (this may take a while)
      - Checking status of PID 109467 (2020-10-08_15-31-41)
        - Restore is still running, please wait
        - Folder size: 178.5 K (target: 13.3 G)
      - Checking status of PID 109467 (2020-10-08_15-32-03)
        - Restore is still running, please wait
        - Folder size: 707.8 K (target: 13.3 G)
    ...
      - Checking status of PID 109467 (2020-10-08_16-23-19)
        - Restore is still running, please wait
        - Folder size: 11.5 G (target: 13.3 G)
      - Checking status of PID 109467 (2020-10-08_16-23-41)
      - Backup job has finished
    > Time taken: 3139.875 seconds
    Changing ownership of Hadoop HDFS files
    > Time taken: 30.450 seconds
    Updating location of hive warehouse
    > Time taken: 8.640 seconds
    Updating location of caspida analytics database
    > Time taken: 9.058 seconds
    Flushing existing Redis data
    > Time taken: 10.041 seconds
    Stopping Redis for Redis restore
    > Time taken: 2.352 seconds
    Restoring Redis database (parallel mode)
    Triggering Redis restore of node 1 to 1
      - Performing restore of data from UBA node 1 to UBA node 1 (ip-192-168-10-10)
      - Performing rsync of database from UBA node 1 to UBA node 1
      - Waiting for pid 87260 to finish
        - Process finished successfully
    > Time taken: 11.011 seconds
    Starting Redis after Redis restore
    > Time taken: 3.300 seconds
    Waiting for 60 seconds to let Redis settle
    Retrieving Redis information (pre-fixup) (attempt 1)
    Successfully retrieved Redis information (pre-fixup)
    > Time taken: 0.097 seconds
    Performing Redis restore fixup (attempt 1)
    > Time taken: 0.109 seconds
    Performing Redis restore rebalance (attempt 1)
    > Time taken: 0.095 seconds
    Successfully finished Redis fixup/rebalance
    Retrieving Redis information (post-fixup)
    > Time taken: 0.095 seconds
    Determining number of Redis keys (post-restore)
    - Retrieving keys from ubanode1 (ip-192-168-10-10)
    > Time taken: 0.593 seconds
    Not checking Redis key counts (old backup)
    Tuning configuration
    > Time taken: 0.611 seconds
    Stopping UBA (stop)
    > Time taken: 17.020 seconds
    Syncing UBA cluster
    > Time taken: 0.464 seconds
    Copying /opt/caspida/conf to hdfs /user/caspida/config/etc/caspida/conf
    > Time taken: 8.931 seconds
    Configuring containerization
    > Time taken: 93.969 seconds
    Starting UBA
    > Time taken: 188.828 seconds
    Testing Impala
    > Time taken: 11.236 seconds
    Logging PostgreSQL sparkserverregistry table (post-restore)
    > Time taken: 0.461 seconds
    Comparing PostgreSQL backup/restore counts/stats
    > Time taken: 3.391 seconds
    Migrating datasources
      - Migrating datasource: ASSETS
      - Migrating datasource: AWSCLOUDTRAIL
      - Migrating datasource: OSXPROCESS
      - Migrating datasource: DHCP
      - Migrating datasource: DNS
      - Migrating datasource: ESNOTABLE
      - Migrating datasource: FIREWALL
      - Migrating datasource: IDENTITIES
      - Migrating datasource: IDSIPS
      - Migrating datasource: IPFLOW
      - Migrating datasource: LINUXAUTH
      - Migrating datasource: SQUID
      - Migrating datasource: WINEVENTLOG
      - Deleting file-based datasource: file-uba-assets.csv
      - Deleting file-based datasource: file-uba-identities.csv
    > Time taken: 26.924 seconds
    Restore completed successfully
    Time taken: 1 hour(s), 6 minute(s), 41 second(s)
    
    You can review the log file in /var/log/caspida/uba-restore-<timestamp>.log.
  4. If you are integrating Splunk UBA with Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), install the Splunk ES SSL certificates in the restored deployment. See Configure the Splunk platform to receive data from the Splunk UBA output connector in the Send and Receive Data from the Splunk Platform manual.
Last modified on 03 August, 2023
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® User Behavior Analytics: 5.3.0, 5.4.0, 5.4.1


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