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Backup system support
Abiquo backup plugins support the following backup systems:
Veeam
Networker
Rubrik
The Abiquo integration with these systems supports complete backups only.
For more details, see individual plugin configuration pages and the functionality and constraints sections below.
Licenses
Each backup integration and version has a separate plugin that requires a separate license
Configure backup plugins
See the following pages to configure each plugin.
Set Abiquo properties for backups
Log in to the Remote Services server and edit the abiquo.properties file.
Optionally set the delay between executions of the backup results check in milliseconds. The default of 600000 represents 10 minutes.
Set the Abiquo Configuration properties to configure a backup plugin and load the configuration file for the required backup system.
See Abiquo configuration properties#backup
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Here is a brief outline of how to configure Backups in the Abiquo UI
Configure backup policies in Infrastructure view: Backup
Allow tenants to work with backup policies: Manage Enterprises in the Allowed datacenters section
Users configure backups on VMs: VM backups
Information for cloud users
Please inform cloud users of the following:
The cloud user should check that the selected backup time for a VM is set as UTC + offset.
All disks will be backed up by Veeam, even if they have been deselected in the Abiquo VM backup configuration dialog
Abiquo will allow users to create more than one backup per VM, but Veeam will allow only one backup. Therefore, only the most recent backup job is used
The Snapshot on-demand functionality uses VMware Snapshots that are only valid if the original disk is available
Technical details
When the user deploys, reconfigures or undeploys a VM, Abiquo will include a new job called BACKUP_SCHEDULE in that task. If the job fails because Abiquo cannot schedule the backup, then the VM operation will roll back. Events from the backup system are incorporated into Abiquo and streamed by the outbound API.
The backup plugins work with the API (for backup management), and remote services: virtual factory and NARS. As described in the configuration section, the backup plugins are configured using the Abiquo property on Remote Services to give the configuration file location and the backup system configuration files in the same folder as the Abiquo properties file on the remote services server.
Functionality
In the current version, the supported functionality for the backup plugins is as follows.
Operation | Networker | Rubrik | Veeam |
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Configure schedules on deploy | X | X | |
Configure schedules on reconfigure | X | X | X |
Deconfigure schedules on undeploy | X | X | X |
Execute on demand backup | X | X |
Restore | X | X | X |
List backup and restore results | X | X | X |
Check expired results | X | X | X |
Constraints
The constraints for the backup plugin actions are as follows.
Constraint | Networker | Rubrik | Veeam |
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Reconfigure schedules in power on state | X | X | X |
Restore a VM in power on state | X | X | |
Restore a VM when it is not allocated | X |
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Instantly record results of Backup and Restore | X | X | X |
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Deprecated backup plugins
For VMware snapshots as on-demand backups only, there is also a standalone plugin, see /wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311378137