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Introduction
This document provides a description of changes to the Abiquo backup feature. For a description of the complete feature, please see:
- Infrastructure: Backup
- Tenants: Manage Enterprises in the section about Allowed datacenters
- VMs: VM backups
Integrated backup plugins
In the Abiquo backup feature, backup plugins were previously run as a separate service and they have now been integrated into the core product.
Abiquo backup plugins support the following backup systems:
- Veeam
- Avamar
Both The Abiquo integration with both of these systems support supports Complete backups only. Note that Veeam actually performs cumulative backups but when it interacts with Abiquo, Veeam stores and retrieves complete backups.
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 
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. For Avamar Abiquo uses the Code attribute to match policies that the administrator already created in Avamar.
Abiquo supports
Abiquo now supports setting the Avamar replication option.
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The enterprise that creates the backup policies will automatically be allowed to use them. For other enterprises, you must select the allowed backup policies for each datacenter.
Then to assign backup policies to their virtual machines, users in the enterprise will be able to select backup policies from the allowed backup policies. In the API, the configured backup is stored for the virtual machine using the backup configuration definition data media type.
The user will then need to configure the backup at the virtual machine level, for example, to set the time and select disks as required.
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
After the user creates a backup, it displays in the list on the Backups tab. 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 restore a backup, the user clicks on the Restore link. 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.
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