[ovirt-users] Question on Backup and Restore API

[santosh]

On 08/19/2014 10:24 AM, Liron Aravot wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "santosh" <sbahir at commvault.com>
>> To: users at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 7:34:02 PM
>> Subject: [ovirt-users] Question on Backup and Restore API
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The link Backup and Restore API 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
> Hi santosh,
> you should also have All-Content:true header.
> I updated the wiki page accordingly.
Thanks Liron. It gives the information I am looking for.

Thanks, Santosh.
>
> thanks!
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <snapshot href ="
>> /api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094
>> " id =" a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094 " >
>> <actions>
>> <link href ="
>> /api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094/restore
>> " rel =" restore " />
>> </actions>
>> <description> FirstClick </description>
>> <type> regular </type>
>> <vm id =" 4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705 " >
>> <name> RHEL_65_CL1 </name>
>> <description> This is cluster 1 </description>
>> <link href ="
>> /api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094/cdroms
>> " rel =" cdroms " />
>> <link href ="
>> /api/vms/4dcd5b6a-cf4b-460c-899d-4edb5345d705/snapshots/a8f63b31-1bfa-45ba-a8cc-d10b486f1094/disks
>> " rel =" disks " />
>> <link href ="
>> /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>
>> <topology sockets =" 1 " cores =" 1 " />
>> <architecture> X86_64 </architecture>
>> </cpu>
>> <cpu_shares> 0 </cpu_shares>
>> <os type =" other " >
>> <boot dev =" cdrom " />
>> <boot dev =" 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>
>> <host id =" 2704a037-0a61-4f3e-8063-6bd67bdbac36 " />
>> <cluster id =" ba23117a-708e-40f6-bf32-970c4f86b7ee " />
>> <template id =" 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>
>> <method id =" 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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