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= and exclude= must be a Java compatible regular expression.
In order to be backed up, servers/images/volumes must match the include=... predicate and not match the exclude=.... However, any item that matches the <server|image|volume>=... options will be backed up regardless of the include/exclude specifications.
By default all items match the include predicate and not the exclude. Therefore, if none of the parameters <server|image|volume>=..., include=... and exclude=... 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 the include 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.