Backup/Restore and DR service overview¶
- The Backup/Restore and DR service provides an easy way to backup and restore
- your OpenStack workloads to different storage.
- The Backup and restore service consists of the following components:
- freezer-api
- freezer-agent
- freezer-scheduler
- The Disaster Recovery service consists of the following components:
- freezer-dr
The service features a RESTful API, which can be used to maintain the status of your jobs, backups and metadata.
This chapter assumes a working setup of OpenStack following the base Installation Guide.
Concepts and definitions¶
freezer-apiservice- Accepts and responds to end user API calls…
freezer-schedulerservice- Does API calls to
freezer-apito schedule, fetch, update or Delete backup jobs. freezer-agentservice- Python application run on the same node like
freezer-schedulerand it gets called byfreezer-schedulerto execute backups/restore operations. freezer-drservice- Independent service from all other freezer services. It runs on the control plane to do disaster recovery in case of any compute node failed (more to follow)
hostname is _probably_ going to be the host fqdn.
backup_id defined as UUID of a backup.
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