Bug 978830

Summary:	[Docs][Admin] Backup and Restore API for Independent Software Vendors
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager	Reporter:	Tim Hildred <thildred>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Tim Hildred <thildred>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	3.3.0	CC:	acathrow, gklein, yeylon
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	3.3.0
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:	storage
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	975685	Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-10-04 08:24:30 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	922475, 975685, 1054231
Bug Blocks:	523354, 891908

Description Tim Hildred 2013-06-27 07:56:38 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #975685 +++

This bug affects, at least,
- Administration Guide
- Developer Guide
- And possibly an additional guide.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #922475 +++

This feature allows RHEV users to backup and restore VMs using Independent Software Vendors. New set of APIs will be introduced in RHEV to facilitate taking full VM backup, as well as full or file level restore of VMs. 
olicies set up by the backup machine administrator.
File level restore

oVirt feature page: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Backup-Restore_API_Integration

--- Additional comment from Sean Cohen on 2013-04-14 05:25:36 EDT ---

See Bug 951904 - (qemu-ga) Tracker: Guest Quiesce for application-level consistency for VSS & qemu-ga freeze/thaw hooks for Linux guests.

Comment 1 Tim Hildred 2013-10-04 08:24:30 UTC

This work is better tracked in tracker at this stage. We need more information to see where it lives. I'm closing this bug, because I don't think the information that comes out of the tracker will ultimately end up in the Admin Guide.