Abiquo Backup Plugins

Abiquo backup plugins support the following backup systems: Veeam, Avamar, and Networker.

The Abiquo integration with these systems supports Complete backups only.

Configure backup plugins

See the following pages to configure the backup properties file for each plugin. 

• Configure Abiquo Avamar Plugin
• Configure Abiquo Veeam Backup Plugin
• Configure Dell EMC Networker backup plugin

Load backup plugin and properties

Set the following Abiquo Configuration properties to configure the backup plugin and load the configuration file for the required backup system.

See Abiquo Configuration Properties#backup

abiquo.backup.avamar.config.path=/opt/abiquo/config/avamar.properties
abiquo.backup.veeam.config.path=/opt/abiquo/config/veeam.properties
abiquo.backup.networker.config.path=/opt/abiquo/config/networker.properties

Configure backups in Abiquo

Here is a brief outline of how to configure Backups in the Abiquo UI

1. Configure backup policies in Infrastructure view: Backup
2. Allow tenants to work with backup policies: Manage Enterprises in the Allowed datacenters section
3. Users configure backups on VMs: VM backups

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. As before 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.

Functionality

In the current version, the supported functionality for the plugins is as follows.

Constraints

The constraints for the backup actions are as follows.