RHV Plugin: Features

Bacula Enterprise Only

This solution is only available for Bacula Enterprise. For subscription inquiries, please reach out to sales@baculasystems.com.

The following chapter describes the features of the RHV Plugin.

Backup Features

Full image-level backup
Incremental backup
Differential backup
Proxy backup
Agentless backup
RHV snapshot integration to create a snapshot to back up, and always delete this snapshot when the backup finishes, when the plugin finishes its work, or when the next backup is initiated if a prior backup error occurred
Snapshot consistency through quiescing VMs for backup
Backup storage cache in Red Hat Virtualization Manager (Where we keep cloned VMs)
Individual VM Backups
VM derivative of template Backups
Individual Template Backups
Optional VM configuration only backups
Disk exclusion
Selection of VMs to back up by tags, regular expression matching on name, or per any structure RHV sec:queryingRHV
Backup of virtual machines in a “running”, “paused” or “shut off” state
VM exclusion
Password obfuscation
Failed backup control:
- Find and remove previous failed backups / snapshots with every execution
- Backup cancellation and connection loss controls to try to remove snapshots or clones of current backup
- Control of snapshots by an internal catalog.

Restore to original or different location in RHV environment (Cluster or Storage Domain)
Replace original VM or create a new VM with a new name
Restore templates
Change destination VM name
Local restore of disk images and VM XML configuration to allow manual processing
Exclude disks from restore
Turn VM on after restore, or leave turned off
Restore disk configuration:
- Virtual disk interface (ide, virtio, virtio_scsi, spart)
- “Active” state of disk
- “Boot disk” flag
- Template to name restored disks
- Name list of restored disks
Restore NIC configurations (providing MAC address list)