Hi Nicolas, The idea is great. I have some questions though.
Before getting to the questions, your pictures are broken, or at least they seem broken to me. How would the “dummy” backup provider work? I mean, what does it do? where does it storage the "backup"? What is the difference from this Backup to a Snapshot? Is it simply storing a snapshot outside the cloud structure? How would these “backup policies” look like? I mean, what can I configure? Regarding that parameter “external” of your backup policy, how would it work if we set it to false? What are you defining as a backup (what do you mean by backup in the context of this feature?)? I mean, is it simply a snapshot file that you store somewhere else? On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 6:05 AM, <daniel.herrm...@zv.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > +1 for this feature request, thank you for bringing this to life! Volume > snapshots are what our users currently use as backup solution, which has > some inherent problems such as handling large volumes and the handling of > multiple volumes (consistency). > > One thought: when restoring a VM, I think there are two cases to consider: > > - The VM is still in CS and the user just wants to restore an old version > of the VM > - The VM has already been deleted and the user wants to restore the > deleted VM > > As listBackups is described as " listBackups API method. List existing > backups for a VM". Is the second use case supported at all? > > I like the approach not to define the backup policies in CS but in > whatever tool is used in the end, as otherwise a lot of features might be > lost. We as services providers need to create them in the first place, but > I think this is the better solution. > > Regards > Daniel > > On 06.06.18, 14:43, "Nicolas Vazquez" <nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > We would like to introduce a new framework into CloudStack that will > allow adding Backup and Recovery providers as plugins. This framework goal > is allowing users to backup their guest VMs for recovery purposes. > > > Please find the FS on this link: https://cwiki.apache.org/ > confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Backup+and+Recovery+Framework > > > Regards, > > Nicolas Vazquez > > nicolas.vazq...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > , > @shapeblue > > > > > > -- Rafael Weingärtner
