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See also Steps to upgrade Veeam below.
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Prepare and maintain Veeam storage
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Your backup administrator should prepare and maintain Veeam storage because Abiquo does not delete backups. |
Abiquo supports the use of retention policies to set the number of backups to keep but does not control how long to keep the backups.
When a user deletes a backup policy from a VM, Abiquo changes the name to disable and remove it from the next run. However, Abiquo does not detach the backup from the disabled job, so the backup will remain on the disk forever.
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Hypervisors
The Abiquo Veeam backup plugins supports VMware and Hyper-V.
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Install Veeam with the Veeam Enterprise Manager, which is an optional component
During the install, configure the API ports of the Veeam Enterprise Manager for the Veeam Backup RESTful API service to use. By default, the values are HTTP port
9399and HTTPS port9398.Ensure that the HTTPS port is reachable from all of the Abiquo Remote Services servers
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In Abiquo, you will create backup policies for users to assign to their VMs. Abiquo will use the Code of the policy to identify which Veeam job to clone to create the backup. So create a backup job for each policy that you will create in Abiquo.
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Backup policy code must match Veeam job When a user assigns a backup policy to a VM, if Abiquo cannot find the Veeam job to match a backup policy code, then it will not be able to create a new backup job in Veeam and the VM backups will not run. |
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Disabled backups remain on disk |
For each backup policy you will create in Abiquo:
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