Backup Parameters

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Important

Remember to read the Best Practices chapter common for all of our hypervisor plugins.

Openstack Backup Parameters
Parameter	Values	Default	Description
neutron_backup	`<Yes or No>`	No	Specify if the job should look for network related items to backup.
neutron_network_backup	`<Yes or No>`	Yes	Specify if the job should look for Neutron networks to backup.
neutron_subnet_backup	`<Yes or No>`	Yes	Specify if the job should look for Neutron subnetworks to backup.
nova_flavor_backup	`<Yes or No>`	No	Specify if the job should look for all Nova flavors to backup. The flavors for the Nova servers included in the backup are also included regardless this option is set or not.
glance_image_backup	`<Yes or No>`	No	Specify if the job should look for Glance images to backup.
image	`<image name>`		Specifies the name of a single image to back up, regardless of other include/exclude rules.
image_include	`<Java Regexp>`		Specifies a list of images names to back up. Uses Java-compatible regular expressions.
image_exclude	`<Java Regexp>`		Specifies a list of images names to exclude from backup. Uses Java-compatible regular expression.
nova_server_backup	`<Yes or No>`	Yes	Specify if the job should look for all Nova servers to backup. The flavors for the Nova servers included in the backup are also included regardless the nova_flavor_backup option is set or not.
server	`<server name>`		Specifies the name of a single Nova server to back up, regardless of other include/exclude rules.
server_include	`<Java Regexp>`		Specifies a set of Nova servers names to back up. Uses Java-compatible regular expressions.
server_exclude	`<Java Regexp>`		Specifies a set of Nova servers names to exclude from backup. Uses Java-compatible regular expression.
cinder_volume_backup	`<Yes or No>`	No	Specify if the job should look for Cinder volumes not attached to any Nova server.
volume	`<volume name>`		Specifies the name of a single volume to back up, regardless of other include/exclude rules.
volume_include	`<Java Regexp>`		Specifies a set of volume names to back up. Uses Java-compatible regular expressions.
volume_exclude	`<Java Regexp>`		Specifies a set of volume names to exclude from the backup. Uses Java-compatible regular expressions.
volume_backup_block_size	`<Positive Interger>`	4194240	Specifies the size of block to backup. This should be a multiple of 65535 (Bacula maximum block size)
volume_backup_sha_algorithm	`Hash function`	SHA-256	Hash algorithm to use for block backup. Default value is SHA-256 as it is guarentee to be present on all systems.

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.