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  2. NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide
  3. Performing Backup Administration tasks
  4. Example runbook for disaster recovery using NFS
  5. Disaster recovery of a single policy
  6. Restore the policy
  7. Prepare the selective restore by creating the restore.json file
NetBackup™ for OpenStack Administrator's Guide

Prepare the selective restore by creating the restore.json file

The selective restore is using a restore.json file for the CLI command. This restore.json file needs to be adjusted according to the desired restore.

{
   u'description':u'<description of the restore>',
   u'oneclickrestore':False,
   u'restore_type':u'selective',
   u'type':u'OpenStack',
   u'name':u'<name of the restore>'
   u'OpenStack':{
      u'instances':[
         {
            u'name':u'<name instance 1>',
            u'availability_zone':u'<AZ instance 1>',
            u'nics':[ #####Leave empty for network topology restore
            ],
            u'vdisks':[
               {
                  u'id':u'<old disk id>',
                  u'new_volume_type':u'<new volume type name>',
                  u'availability_zone':u'<new cinder volume AZ>'
               }
            ],
            u'flavor':{
               u'ram':<RAM in MB>,
               u'ephemeral':<GB of ephemeral disk>,
               u'vcpus':<# vCPUs>,
               u'swap':u'<GB of Swap disk>',
               u'disk':<GB of boot disk>,
               u'id':u'<id of the flavor to use>'
            },
            u'include':<True/False>,
            u'id':u'<old id of the instance>'
         } #####Repeat for each instance in the snapshot
      ],
      u'restore_topology':<True/False>,
      u'networks_mapping':{
         u'networks':[ #####Leave empty for network topology restore
            
         ]
      }
   }
}

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