Few questions on Backup Restore API implmn.

[Deepak C Shetty]

On 06/17/2013 05:57 PM, Ayal Baron wrote:
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>> Hi Ayal,
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>> On 06/11/2013 01:38 AM, Ayal Baron wrote:
>>> I think there is some misunderstanding here.
>>> The 'users' *are* the backup vendors.
>>> These APIs are intended directly for backup vendors who will integrate once
>>> with the API.
>>> Users wanting to backup or restore will go to the vendors application not
>>> to oVirt.
>> Well this is whole different story, i could never guess that from the feature
>> wiki,
>> obviously when speaking about public api, first thing that pops up is a ovirt
>> user,
>> not backup vendor.
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>> So AFAIU the backup process will be triggered/managed from the backup vendor
>> app.,
>> in that case i'm perfectly fine with the current design.
> Ack, so we'll fix the wiki to explain this better, sorry for the confusion, I had a feeling we're not talking about the same things here and I do agree that for an oVirt user rather than vendor it would be a pain in the $%@#.

I changed the 'Summary' on the wiki page from ...

"This feature allows oVirt users to backup and restore VMs using 
Independent Software Vendors. New set of APIs will be introduced in 
oVirt to facilitate taking full VM backup, as well as full or file level 
restore of VMs."

to ...

"This feature provides the ability for ISVs to backup and restore VMs. 
New set of APIs will be introduced in oVirt to facilitate taking full VM 
backup, as well as full or file level restore of VMs. Backup and Restore 
will be REST API driven (and not GUI/User driven)."

Other than that.. i didn't see any other text which will cause the 
confusion.

thanx,
deepak


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>> cheers.
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>> Michael Pasternak
>> RedHat, ENG-Virtualization R&D
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