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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

hostname is _probably going to be the host fqdn.

backup_id defined as UUID of a backup

freezer-api service

Accepts and responds to end user API calls...