Backup

Introduction to Backup as a Service

Abiquo offers Backup as a Service so you can directly offer your users a local self-service backup without creating your own integrations, and you can automatically add backup services to the customer's bill and charge by GBs! For details of the cloud user experience of backups, see VM backups.

Abiquo has backup plugins for Veeam, Networker, and Rubrik. See Abiquo backup plugins.

Abiquo also supports self-service VMware snapshots. See Abiquo and VM snapshots for VMware.

How to configure backups in Abiquo

To configure backups in Abiquo, do these steps

1. Obtain the license for your backup plugin from Abiquo Customer Service

2. Configure the backup plugin, see Abiquo backup plugins

3. Create a backup manager, see below

4. Edit backup policy properties

5. Create a backup policy

6. Allow tenant enterprises to work with backup policies. See https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311377504/Configure+an+enterprise+in+a+cloud+location#Allow-a-tenant-to-use-backup-polices-in-a-datacenter

7. Allow users to work with backups. See VM backups for a list of privileges that users will require for each backup action.

Create a backup manager

In private cloud datacenters, Abiquo offers backup plugins that support popular backup systems, such as

Before you begin:

1. Obtain the license for your backup plugin

2. Configure the backup plugin, see Abiquo backup plugins

To create a Backup manager to connect Abiquo to your backup service in a datacenter or public cloud region:

1. Go to Infrastructure

2. Go to Private and open a datacenter or go to Public and open a public cloud region

3. Go to Backup policies

   

4. Click the Backup manager button

5. In the dialog, for the Endpoint, enter the URL to connect to the backup system API

   1. For Veeam 10 and Veeam 11: https://veeam.example.com:9398/api/

      1. Don’t forget the slash at the end

   2. For Networker: https://networker.host.domain:9090/nwrestapi/v3/global

   3. For Rubrik: https://rubrik.host.domain:4440/api

6. For the User, enter the user of the backup system. For some plugins, also enter the vCenter user. The administrator can configure a different separator (instead of #) using Abiquo configuration properties.

   1. Veeam user

   2. Networker user#vCenter user

   3. For Rubrik with vCenter: Rubrik user#vCenter user

7. For the Password, enter the password of the backup system. For some plugins, also enter the vCenter password. The administrator can configure a different separator.

   1. Veeam password

   2. Networker password#vCenter password

   3. Rubrik password#vCenter password

      

8. Click Save 

Abiquo will create the backup manager.

When editing the backup manager, you can modify all values except the backup type. If you change the backup manager, future requests to the backup system will use the new values. 

Configure backup policy properties

See Edit backup policy properties

Create a backup policy

See Create a backup policy

Update backup policies

When a backup policy is assigned to a VM, the administrator may only edit the general information, which is the Name, Code, and Description of the backup policy.

Related pages

• How to configure backup plugins in the platform: Abiquo backup plugins

• For administrators, the Backup feature will create the events described at Events table for Backup policy

• Allow enterprises to use backup policies: https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/311377504/Configure+an+enterprise+in+a+cloud+location#Allow-a-tenant-to-use-backup-polices-in-a-datacenter

• Users configure backups for VMs: VM backups

• Development of backup plugins: Backup plugin archetype