When you configure a backup for your virtual machine, the platform will display the backup symbol in the lower right-hand corner of the virtual machine icon. 

The platform uses backup systems such as Veeam or Avamar and it creates backups for virtual machines that are deployed on the hypervisor. If you undeploy the virtual machine, you cannot access the backup system through the platform. If you later redeploy the virtual machine, you can continue using the backup system to restore previous backups or create new backups.

If you delete the virtual machine, you cannot access the backup system through the platform. 

Create a manual backup now

If manual backups are enabled for the datacenter, when the User edits the virtual machine configuration, the platform will display the Backup now button in the top right-hand corner of the of the Backup tab.

When the user clicks this button, the platform will request request an immediate backup through the API.

Configure backup type

If you have the privilege to Manage virtual machine backup configuration, you can set the basic backup configuration for your virtual machines. This means you can choose the backup policy and the disks.

  1. Open the Backup tab to the Backup policies page
  2. Select from the list of backup policies
  3. Click Show details

Enter a path for filesystem backup

For a filesystem backup, enter the folder or directory path to back up.

 

Select disks for snapshot or complete backup

Configure backup schedule

The administrator can set the date and time in the backup policy or they can require the user to set the date and time.

To enter backup date(s) and time(s), you must have the privilege to Manage virtual machine backup schedule, and you must configure the exact date and time of a backup.

Abiquo uses ISO 8601 and datacenter owners should inform users of the time standard used in the datacenter

Time zones in ISO 8601 are represented as local time (with the location unspecified), as UTC, or as an offset from UTC

Screenshot: The administrator has configured backup schedule

Screenshot: The user must configure the backup schedule

 

Backup results

The results shown may vary depending on your datacenter's backup system. Backups with a status of "done" or "completed" will have a Restore link enabled in the Action column. 

Backup events

For users the backup feature will produce the events described in the Events View#Virtualmachine under METADATA_MODIFIED and RESTORE_BACKUP.

The Events page on the Backup tab will display events from backup integrations. 

To view the details of an event, click on the event.

Events page

Event details