JoaoJandre commented on code in PR #664: URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-documentation/pull/664#discussion_r3589455060
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See the License for the + specific language governing permissions and limitations + under the License. + +.. _KBOSS Backup and Recovery Plugin: + +KBOSS Backup and Recovery Plugin +================================ + +About the KBOSS Backup and Recovery Plugin +------------------------------------------ + +The KVM Backup on Secondary Storage Backup and Recovery Plugin provider was designed to provide a complete B&R experience for KVM. It uses already validated methods +to create incremental backups of VMs. Its main characteristics are: + - Full or incremental backups, configured by the user. + - Support for backup compression. + - Support for backup validation. + - Support for "quick restore", inspired by Veeam's Instant Recovery. + - Compatible with incremental disk-only VM snapshots (see :ref:`Disk-only-File-based-Storage-Instance-Snapshots-on-KVM`). + - Backups are stored in the secondary storage. + +By default, the backups are stored in any secondary storage available, sharing the same space with templates, ISOs and snapshots. +However, it is possible to create backup-exclusive secondary storages using the :ref:`Direct resources to a specific secondary storage` feature. + +Currently, only the backup of VMs consuming NFS, File-based Shared Mountpoint, and/or Local Storage is supported. + +Since the KBOSS plugin is fully implemented by ACS, and does not depend on any external provider, the **importBackupOffering** API is not used. +Instead, the **createBackupOffering** is used to allow users to configure KBOSS features they want. These backup offerings can then +be assigned to KVM instances to perform B&R actions and operations. + + +Using the KBOSS Backup and Recovery Plugin +------------------------------------------ +To use the KBOSS Backup and Recovery Plugin, the Backup and Recovery framework needs to be enabled first. Then, 'kboss' needs to be configured as the backup provider +on either the global or zone settings. + +================================= ======================== +Configuration Value +================================= ======================== +backup.framework.enabled true +backup.framework.provider.plugin kboss +================================= ======================== + +Once the two configurations above are set, restart the cloudstack-management service. + +After enabling the plugin, we can create the first backup offering. Navigate to the Service Offerings -> Backup Offerings tab, click on 'Create Backup Offering', and fill the wizard. + +=============================== ======================== +Field Value +=============================== ======================== +Name A suitable name to represent the Backup Offering. +Description A suitable description to represent the Backup Offering. +Zone Zone in which this backup offering will be available. +Allow User driven backups Whether to allow backups from the ACS API. If this value is false, you will not be able to create backups using KBOSS. **It must be set as true**. +Public Whether the offering is public or dedicated to a domain. +Domain Domain to dedicate the offering, only shown when 'Public' is false. +Compress Whether the backups should be compressed after creation. +Compression library Which compression library to use, only shown when 'Compress' is true. +Validate Whether to validate backups after creation. +Validation steps Which validation steps should be executed. +Allow extract file Whether backups created with this offering should allow file extraction. This feature will be implemented in a future version. +Allow quick restore Whether backups created with this offering should allow quick restore. +Backup chain size The backup chain size of the incremental backups. This value overwrites what is set in `backup.chain.size`. +=============================== ======================== + +.. image:: /_static/images/create-backup-offering.png + :align: center + :alt: KBOSS backup offering creation wizard + + +After creating the backup offering, you can assign it to any Instance and start to perform ad-hoc backups or schedule them. + +Quiesce (Filesystem Freeze and Thaw) +------------------------------------ + +Users can set quiesce to true while creating a backup or a backup schedule. +When a backup is initiated with quiesce enabled, CloudStack uses the QEMU guest agent +to freeze the filesystem before starting the backup. This operation flushes all dirty +filesystem buffers to disk and quiesces new writes. The filesystem is then thawed +immediately after the backup process starts, keeping the freezing window very short. + +|NASB&R-quiesceInstance.png| + +This feature makes the KBOSS backups closer to application-consistent backups, rather than crash-consistent backups. + +Points to note: + +#. The feature requires QEMU Guest Agent to be installed and running on the guest instance. +#. This method does not capture the memory state of the guest. Any data held in application memory + that hasn’t been flushed to disk prior to the filesystem freeze will not be captured. +#. For fully application-consistent backups, guest applications must implement pre-freeze hooks + to flush their internal state to disk before the filesystem is frozen. + +Backup Chain Management +----------------------- + +The size of the incremental backup chain is determined by the `backup.chain.size` zone-wide configuration; furthermore, it may be overridden on the +offering level. Once the backup chain reaches the configured size, the next backup will be a full backup and a new chain will start. + +If users wish to finalize the backup chain early, the **finishBackupChain** API may be used. It is also available through the VM instance interface on the GUI. +Additionally, this API can also be used when the VM is in the `BackupError` state to normalize it. Most times ACS is able to normalize it; however, the VM may be unable to be recovered +automatically for a number of reasons, for example if the storage is unavailable. + +Isolated backups +---------------- + +If you want to create a backup that does not depend on, nor affects any backup chain, you may inform the `isolated` flag when creating a backup, or a backup schedule. +When set, the created backup will be a full backup, with no dependencies on other backups, and no future backups will depend on it. + +Quick restore +------------- + +If the backup was created using an offering with `allowQuickRestore` set, the user will be able to restore it using the `quickRestore` flag. +When this is done, CloudStack creates new deltas on primary storage that have the backup on secondary storage as their backing files. Then, the VM is automatically started and the volume consolidation process starts. During consolidation, the VM is already available to use. + +While this process is ongoing, the VM should not be stopped (from inside the VM), otherwise, it will fail to consolidate the volume. The benefit of using quick restore +is that the VM is up and running in a very short time; however, the time to finish the consolidation process is bigger than normal restore. During +the consolidation process, the VM's disk might have their performance slowed, when the process is done, the performance should go back to normal. + +Compression +----------- + +The backup compression process is executed asynchronously after the backup is created, for VMs using backup offerings that support it. +There are several configurations that affect the backup compression task and process: + +.. list-table:: Compression Configurations + :widths: 20 60 20 + :header-rows: 1 + + * - Configuration + - Description + - Default value + * - `backup.compression.task.enabled` + - Determines whether the task responsible for scheduling compression jobs is active. If not, compression jobs will not run + - true + * - `backup.compression.max.concurrent.operations.per.host` + - Maximum number of concurrent compression jobs. Values lower than 1 disable the limit. + - 5 + * - `backup.compression.max.concurrent.operations` + - Maximum number of compression jobs that can be executed at the same time in the zone. Values lower than 1 disable the limit. + - 10 + * - `backup.compression.max.job.retries` + - Maximum number of attempts for executing compression jobs + - 2 + * - `backup.compression.retry.interval` + - Interval, in minutes, between attempts to run compression jobs + - 60 + * - `backup.compression.timeout` + - Timeout, in seconds, for running compression jobs + - 28800 + * - `backup.compression.minimum.free.storage` + - Minimum required available storage to start the backup compression process. + This setting accepts a real number that is multiplied by the total size of the backup to determine the necessary available space. + By default, the storage must have the same amount of available space as the space occupied by the backup. This is checked by the host + when trying to start the process. + - 1 + * - `backup.compression.coroutines` + - Number of coroutines used for the compression process, each coroutine has its own thread + - 1 + * - `backup.compression.rate.limit` + - Compression rate limit, in MB/s. Values less than 1 disable the limit + - 0 + +To check information about compression jobs, the **listBackupServiceJobs** API may be added. Review Comment: ```suggestion To check information about compression jobs, the **listBackupServiceJobs** API may be used. ``` -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
