Backup and DR service Overview

Freezer is a Backup Restore DR as a Service platform that helps you to automate the data backup and restore process.

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

hostname is _probably going to be the host fqdn.

backup_id defined as UUID of a backup