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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. Performing backups and restores of OpenStack
  4. Snapshot overview
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Snapshot overview

Each snapshot contains a lot of information about the backup. This information can be seen in the snapshot overview.

Using Horizon

To reach the snapshot overview follow these steps:

  1. On the Horizon console, navigate to NBOS Backups > Policies.

  2. Identify the policy that contains the snapshot to show.

  3. Click the policy name to enter the policy overview.

  4. Navigate to the Snapshots tab.

  5. Identify the searched snapshot in the snapshot list

  6. Click the snapshot name.

    Details

    The Snapshot Details tab shows the most important information about the snapshot.

    • Snapshot ID/Name/Description

    • Snapshot Type

    • Time Taken

    • Size

    • Status

    • Which VMs are part of the snapshot

    • For each VM in the snapshot

      • Instance Info - Name & Status

      • Security Group(s) - Name, Type

      • Flavor - vCPUs, Disk, RAM

      • Networks - IP, Networkname, Mac Address

      • Attached Volumes - Name, Type, size (GB), Mount Point, Restore Size

      • Misc - Original ID of the VM

    Restores

    The Snapshot Restores tab shows the list of restores that have been started from the chosen snapshot. It is possible to start restores from here.

    See About restores.

    Misc.

    The Snapshot Miscellaneous tab provides the remaining metadata information about the snapshot.

    • Creation Time

    • Last Update time

    • Snapshot ID

    • Policy ID of the Policy containing the snapshot

Using CLI
nbosjm snapshot-show [--output <output>] <snapshot_id>
  • <snapshot_id> ID of the snapshot to be shown.

  • --output <output> Option to get additional snapshot details, Specify - output metadata for snapshot metadata, Specify - output networks for snapshot VMs networks, Specify - output disks for snapshot VMs disks.

Note:

OpenStack does not allow you to launch an instance without a network interface. The snapshot of the instance that does not have any network interface attached to it cannot be restored using the selective restore or OneClick restore options. However, you can use in-place restore, which does not launch an instance.

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