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Abiquo now supports setting the Avamar replication option.

The enterprise that

Tenants

Abiquo will automatically allow access to backup policies for the enterprise of the administrator who creates the backup policies will automatically be allowed to use them. For other enterprises, you must select the allowed backup policies for each datacenter. 


In the API, there have been changes to the methods for virtual machine backups. And Abiquo now stores virtual machine backup policy definitions in the virtual machine instead of under metadata. And Abiquo stores backup and restore results in the database instead of the virtual machine metadata. See API Changelog v4.0

Virtual machines

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 virtual machine. To open a list of restore details, which is now in the lower section of the same tab, the user clicks on the backup. 

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Abiquo now displays events from the backup system on the Events tab. 


To see full details, the user double-clicks a backup event.  

CHECK: (question) Users can only restore a backup for a deployed virtual machine. If you undeploy a VM and then deploy it again, you can restore backups for this VM.

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There are new Abiquo API methods for working with backups. Previously, developers could create a backup integration using virtual machine metadata and events. Now developers should upgrade their integration to use the new API methods for backups, with new data media types. The Abiquo UI now works with the Abiquo API instead of virtual machine metadata. So backup results and restores in virtual machine metadata is valid but it will not be visible through the Abiquo UI. Backup results cannot be written using the Abiquo API.

In the API, there have been changes to the methods for virtual machine backups. And Abiquo now stores virtual machine backup policy definitions in the virtual machine instead of under metadata. And Abiquo stores backup and restore results in the database instead of the virtual machine metadata. See API Changelog v4.0

As for hypervisor plugins, you can retrieve the operations and constraints from the backup plugin type.

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