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NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2024-09-29

Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (10.5)

Information required in instances

This part contains all information about all instances that are part of the recovery point to restore and how they are to be restored.

Even when virtual machines are not to be restored, they are required to be inside the restore.json to allow a clean execution of the restore.

Each instance requires the following information.

id Original ID of the instance.
include <True/False> Set True when the instance shall be restored.

All further information is only required, when the instance is part of the restore.

name New name of the instance.
availability_zone Nova Availability Zone the instance shall be restored into. Leave empty for "Any Availability Zone".
Nics List of the OpenStack Neutron ports that shall be attached to the instance. Each Neutron Port consists of:
- id ID of the Neutron port to use
- mac_address Mac Address of the Neutron port
- ip_address IP address of the Neutron port
- network Network the port is assigned to. Contains the following information:
  - id ID of the network the Neutron port is part of.
  - subnetSubnet the port is assigned to. Contains the following information:
    id ID of the network the Neutron port is part of.

To use the next free IP available, set Nics to an empty list [ ]

Using an empty list for Nics combined with the network topology restore, the restore job sets the original IP address of the instance.

vdisks List of all volumes that are part of the instance. Each volume requires the following information:
- id Original ID of the volume.
- new_volume_type The volume type to use for the restored volume. Leave empty for Volume Type None.
- availability_zone The Cinder Availability Zone to use for the volume. The default Availability Zone of Cinder is Nova.
flavor Defines the Flavor to use for the restored instance. Contains the following information:
- ram How much RAM the restored instance will have (in MB).
- ephemeralHow big the ephemeral disk of the instance will be (in GB).
- vcpus How many vcpus the restored instance will have available.
- swap How big the Swap of the restored instance will be (in MB). Leave empty for none.
- disk Size of the root disk the instance will start with.
- id ID of the flavor that matches the provided information.

Warning:

The root disk needs to be at least as big as the root disk of the backed-up instance.

The following example describes a single instance with all values.

'instances':[
  {
     'name':'cdcentOS-1-selective',
     'availability_zone':'US-East',
     'nics':[
       {
          'mac_address':'fa:16:3e:00:bd:60',
          'ip_address':'192.168.0.100',
          'id':'8b871820-f92e-41f6-80b4-00555a649b4c',
          'network':{
             'subnet':{
                'id':'2b1506f4-2a7a-4602-a8b9-b7e8a49f95b8'
             },
             'id':'d5047e84-077e-4b38-bc43-e3360b0ad174'
          }
       }
     ],
     'vdisks':[
       {
          'id':'4cc2b474-1f1b-4054-a922-497ef5564624',
          'new_volume_type':'ceph',
          'availability_zone':'nova'
       }
     ],
     'flavor':{
        'ram':2048,
        'ephemeral':0,
        'vcpus':1,
        'swap':'',
        'disk':20,
        'id':'2'
     },
     'include':True,
     'id':'890888bc-a001-4b62-a25b-484b34ac6e7e'
  }
]