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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.
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The Abiquo integration with both of these systems supports Complete backups only.
Configure backup plugins
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abiquo.avamar.config.path= abiquo.veeam.config.path= |
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Technical details
When the user deploys, reconfigures or undeploys a virtual machine, Abiquo will include a new job called BACKUP_SCHEDULE in that task. If the job fails because Abiquo cannot schedule the backup, then the virtual machine 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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- Abiquo property on API / Server: check
- Abiquo property on Remote Services: configuration file location
- Backup system configuration files in the same folder as the Abiquo properties file on the remote services
API changes
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.
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Configurations and constraints
In the initial version, the supported configurations for the plugins are as follows.
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