Abiquo Backup Plugins

Abiquo backup plugins support the following backup systems:

• Veeam
• Avamar

The Abiquo integration with both of these systems supports Complete backups only.

Configure Veeam

To configure the Abiquo Veeam backup plugin

1. Set up Veeam for Abiquo backup plugin
2. Configure Abiquo Veeam Backup Plugin properties 
3. 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

To create your own backup plugin, see Backup Plugin Archetype

Configure backup plugins

There are two new properties to configure the backup plugin and load the configuration files for each 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

For details of these configuration files, see Configure Abiquo Avamar Plugin and Configure Abiquo Veeam Backup Plugin properties 

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 cloud provider proxy. The backup plugins are configured using:

• 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

Configurations and constraints

In the initial version, the supported configurations for the plugins are as follows.

The constraints for the backup actions are as follows.