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When you configure a backup for your VM, the platform will display the backup symbol in the lower right-hand corner of the VM icon. 

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The platform uses backup systems, such as Veeam or Avamar, and it creates backups for VMs that are deployed on the hypervisor. In some environments the backup system may support restore for VMs that were previously deployed and are now undeployed. If you delete the VM, you cannot access the backup system through the platform. 

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Introduction to VM backups
Introduction to VM backups

Create a manual backup now

If manual backups are enabled for the datacenter, when the User edits the VM configuration, the platform will display the Backup now button in the top right-hand corner of the of the Backup tab.

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Privilege: Manage virtual machine backup configuration

When the user clicks this button, the platform will request request an immediate backup through the API.

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Backup now button to request an immediate backupImage Removed

Configure backup type

To configure your VM backup by selecting the backup policy and the disks, do these steps:

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Privilege: Manage virtual machine backup disks, Manage virtual machine backup configuration

  1. Open the Backup tab to the Backup policies page
  2. Select from the list of backup policies
  3. Click Show details

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Select disks

 To select disks for a complete backup, do these steps:

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Privilege: Manage virtual machine backup configuration, Manage virtual machine backup disks

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Some backup systems will ignore your disk selection and create a backup of all disks. Check your cloud provider's documentation for more information

  1. Click Select Disks
  2. Select the disks for backup 
    1. The disks are shown in sequence order
    2. The system disk is the first one in the list
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For a snapshot backup, you can select disks, as shown above for the complete backup.

Enter a path

For a filesystem backup, enter the folder or directory path to back up.

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Configure backup schedule

The administrator can set the date and time in the backup policy or they can require the user to set the date and time.

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Privilege: Manage virtual machine backup configuration, Manage virtual machine backup schedule

To enter backup date(s) and time(s), you must have the privilege to Manage virtual machine backup schedule, and you must configure the exact date and time of a backup.

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Abiquo uses ISO 8601 and datacenter owners should inform users of the time standard used in the datacenter

Time zones in ISO 8601 are represented as local time (with the location unspecified), as UTC, or as an offset from UTC

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Screenshot: The administrator has configured backup schedule

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Screenshot: The user must configure the backup schedule

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Backup results

The results shown may vary depending on your datacenter's backup system. Backups with a status of "done" or "completed" will have a Restore link enabled in the Action column. 

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Restore a Backup

If you have the Restore virtual machine backups privilege, the platform displays the Restore requests section. 

After you restore a backup, the VM disks are under the control of the backup system, not the platform. So when you undeploy after restoring a VM, the platform will display a warning popup and delete and remove the VM's disks.

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Privilege: Restore virtual machine backups

To create a restore request:

  1. Open the Backup results tab
  2. Click Restore beside a completed backup
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Restore a completed backup by clicking on the restore linkImage Removed

To display the details of the restore, click on the backup in the Backups list. After the restore is completed, the status is displayed, for example, "done" or "failed".

Request a Consecutive Restore

If your environment allows, you may request that a backup be restored more than once. If the Restore requests Status is success or failed, Abiquo will reactivate the Restore link and you can click the Restore link to request a new restore of the same backup.

Backup events

For users the backup feature will produce the events described in the Events View#Virtualmachine under METADATA_MODIFIED and RESTORE_BACKUP.

The Events page on the Backup tab will display events from backup integrations. 

To view the details of an event, click on the event.

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Events page

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Event details

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Request a VM backup now
Request a VM backup now

Configure a VM backup

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Configure a VM backup
Configure a VM backup

Backup results

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Display VM backup results
Display VM backup results

Restore a Backup

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Restore a VM backup
Restore a VM backup

Backup events

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Display VM backup events
Display VM backup events