[ovirt-users] Question on Backup and Restore API

[santosh]

Hi,

The link Backup and Restore API 
<http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration> has steps 
for Full VM Backups. The mentioned steps are,

 1. Take a snapshot of the virtual machine to be backed up - (existing
    oVirt REST API operation)
 2. Back up the virtual machine configuration at the time of the
    snapshot (the disk configuration can be backed up as well if needed)
    - (added capabillity to oVirt as part of the Backup API)
 3. Attach the disk snapshots that were created in (1) to the virtual
    appliance for data backup - (added capabillity to oVirt as part of
    the Backup API)
 4. <data can be backed up>
 5. Detach the disk snapshots that were attached in (4) from the virtual
    appliance - (added capabillity to oVirt as part of the Backup API)


In the example section, following is the explanation for step 2.

    Grab the wanted vm configuration from the needed snapshot - it'll be
    under _*initialization/configuration/data *_

       URL = SERVER:PORT/api/vms/VM_ID/snapshots/ID
       Method = GET


But When run the GET request using rest API, I am not finding 
information for _*initialization/configuration/data*_ in the output.
Following is the output of the GET request.  Please advise If I am 
missing something or looking at wrong place.
I am also attaching xml file with the following content.   Please let me 
know if you need more information.

        *<snapshothref="/api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094"id="a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094">*
        **
        ***<actions>*
        **
        *<linkhref="/api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094/restore"rel="restore"/>*
        **
        *</actions>*
        **
        *<description>**FirstClick**</description>*
        **
        *<type>**regular**</type>*
        **
        ***<vmid="4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705">*
        **
        *<name>**RHEL_65_CL1**</name>*
        **
        *<description>**This is cluster 1**</description>*
        **
        *<linkhref="/api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094/cdroms"rel="cdroms"/>*
        **
        *<linkhref="/api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094/disks"rel="disks"/>*
        **
        *<linkhref="/api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094/nics"rel="nics"/>*
        **
        *<type>**server**</type>*
        **
        ***<status>*
        **
        *<state>**up**</state>*
        **
        *</status>*
        **
        *<memory>**1073741824**</memory>*
        **
        ***<cpu>*
        **
        *<topologysockets="1"cores="1"/>*
        **
        *<architecture>**X86_64**</architecture>*
        **
        *</cpu>*
        **
        *<cpu_shares>**0**</cpu_shares>*
        **
        ***<ostype="other">*
        **
        *<bootdev="cdrom"/>*
        **
        *<bootdev="hd"/>*
        **
        *</os>*
        **
        ***<high_availability>*
        **
        *<enabled>**false**</enabled>*
        **
        *<priority>**1**</priority>*
        **
        *</high_availability>*
        **
        ***<display>*
        **
        *<type>**vnc**</type>*
        **
        *<address>172.19.110.43**</address>*
        **
        *<port>**5900**</port>*
        **
        *<monitors>**1**</monitors>*
        **
        *<single_qxl_pci>**false**</single_qxl_pci>*
        **
        *<allow_override>**false**</allow_override>*
        **
        *<smartcard_enabled>**false**</smartcard_enabled>*
        **
        *</display>*
        **
        *<hostid="2704a037-0a61-4f3e-8063-6bd67bdbac36"/>*
        **
        *<clusterid="ba23117a-708e-40f6-bf32-970c4f86b7ee"/>*
        **
        *<templateid="00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"/>*
        **
        *<start_time>**2014-08-18T11:16:47.307-04:00**</start_time>*
        **
        *<stop_time>**2014-08-18T11:14:26.323-04:00**</stop_time>*
        **
        *<creation_time>**2014-08-08T17:39:52.000-04:00**</creation_time>*
        **
        *<origin>**ovirt**</origin>*
        **
        *<stateless>**false**</stateless>*
        **
        *<delete_protected>**false**</delete_protected>*
        **
        ***<sso>*
        **
        ***<methods>*
        **
        *<methodid="GUEST_AGENT"/>*
        **
        *</methods>*
        **
        *</sso>*
        **
        *<initialization/>*
        **
        ***<placement_policy>*
        **
        *<affinity>**migratable**</affinity>*
        **
        *</placement_policy>*
        **
        ***<memory_policy>*
        **
        *<guaranteed>**1073741824**</guaranteed>*
        **
        *</memory_policy>*
        **
        ***<usb>*
        **
        *<enabled>**false**</enabled>*
        **
        *</usb>*
        **
        *<migration_downtime>**-1**</migration_downtime>*
        **
        *</vm>*
        **
        *<date>**2014-08-17T17:03:53.461-04:00**</date>*
        **
        *<snapshot_status>**ok**</snapshot_status>*
        **
        *<persist_memorystate>**false**</persist_memorystate>*
        **
        *</snapshot>*

Thanks,
Santosh



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