Backup Parameters
Important
Remember to read the Best Practices chapter common for all of our hypervisor plugins.
Important Notes
The use of regular expressions in the parameters
include=
andexclude=
must be a Java compatible regular expression.In order to be backed up, servers/images/volumes must match the
include=...
predicate and not match theexclude=...
. However, any item that matches the<server|image|volume>=...
options will be backed up regardless of theinclude
/exclude
specifications.By default all items match the
include
predicate and not theexclude
. Therefore, if none of the parameters<server|image|volume>=...
,include=...
andexclude=...
are provided, all available elements hosted in the OpenStack environment will be backed up. On the other hand, if the parameter<server|image|volume>=...
is specified, all elements will no longer match theinclude
predicate. This means that if only<server|image|volume>=...
parameter is specified, no other items will be backed up.For any service, if any field from
<element>_include=...
,<element>_exclude=...
or<element>=...
is specified, the plugin will issue a backup for said service regardless of the value of<service>_<element>_backup=...
.
Note
The Nova servers is the only service where the backup of all Nova servers is enabled by default.
See Fileset Examples for examples of include
/exclude
/element
setups.
See also
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