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-api
serviceAccepts and responds to end user API calls…
freezer-scheduler
serviceDoes API calls to
freezer-api
to schedule, fetch, update or Delete backup jobs.freezer-agent
servicePython application run on the same node like
freezer-scheduler
and it gets called byfreezer-scheduler
to execute backups/restore operations.freezer-dr
serviceIndependent 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.