Backup/Restore service overview¶

The Backup/Restore 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:

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-api service: Accepts and responds to end user API calls. freezer-api service documentation can be found here: Freezer API
freezer-scheduler service: Does API calls to freezer-api to schedule, fetch, update or Delete backup jobs.
freezer-agent service: Python application run on the same node like freezer-scheduler and it gets called by freezer-scheduler to execute backups/restore operations.

hostname is _probably_ going to be the host fqdn.

backup_id defined as UUID of a backup.