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Introduction
This document provides a description of the Abiquo backup plugins. For a description of the complete feature, please see also:
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Abiquo backup plugins support the following backup systems:
- Veeam
- Avamar
The Abiquo integration with both of these systems supports Complete backups only.
Configure Veeam
To configure the Abiquo Veeam backup plugin
- Set up Veeam for Abiquo backup plugin
- Configure Abiquo Veeam Backup Plugin properties
- In the Abiquo UI
- Configure backup policies in Infrastructure view: Backup
- Allow tenants to work with backup policies: Manage Enterprises in the Allowed datacenters section
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- Users configure backups on VMs: VM backups
To create your own backup plugin, see Backup Plugin Archetype
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Integrated backup plugins
Abiquo backup plugins support the following backup systems:
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The Abiquo integration with both of these systems supports Complete backups only.
Configure backup plugins
There are two new properties to configure the backup plugin and load the configuration files for each backup system.
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For details of these configuration files, see Configure Abiquo Avamar Plugin and Configure Abiquo Veeam Backup Plugin properties
Changes to configuring backups in infrastructure
You can edit backup properties as before. The Backup now option is only available in the UI when you are working with Avamar, not Veeam.
To use a backup system, you should first create a backup manager for the datacenter. The backup manager configures the connection to the backup system including the endpoint and optional credentials. Here you should specify the type of the backup plugin. Abiquo does not validate the connection details. In this initial version, a connection will be made to the backup system when a user requests a backup operation. Tip: When adding a Veeam backup manager, don't forget to add the slash "/" at the end of the URL. Abiquo does not display the credentials. The administrator can edit all values except the backup type. If you change the backup manager, future requests to the backup system will use the new values.
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As before, in each datacenter, create backup policies that contain the available configurations.
Abiquo now supports setting the Avamar replication option.
Tenants
Abiquo will automatically allow access to backup policies for the enterprise of the administrator who creates the backup policies. For other enterprises, you must select the allowed backup policies for each datacenter.
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VMs
After the user creates a backup, it displays in the list on the Backup results tab, which now combines the previous Latest backups and Restore results tabs.
While the backup system is performing a backup, Abiquo now locks the VM. To open a list of restore details, which is now in the lower section of the same tab, the user clicks on the backup.
Abiquo now displays events from the backup system on the Events tab.
To see full details, the user double-clicks a backup event.
Users can only restore a backup for a deployed VM. If you undeploy a VM and then deploy it again, you can restore backups for this VM.
Technical details
When the user deploys, reconfigures or undeploys a VM, Abiquo will include a new job called BACKUP_SCHEDULE in that task. If the job fails because Abiquo cannot schedule the backup, then the VM operation will roll back. As before events from the backup system are incorporated into Abiquo and streamed by the outbound API.
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