Back Up Volumes: Service Details - HPE XP7 Automation Director User Manual

• If the property openstack.createVolumeEnabled is set to "yes", you cannot omit the property
openstack.volumeCapacity. If you omit the property openstack.volumeCapacity, the task ends
abnormally.
• The maximum length of a character string that can be specified for an input property might be different
from that of a character string that can be registered in OpenStack. If the character string specified for
an input property is longer than the maximum length of character string that can be registered in
OpenStack, a truncated character string is registered.
• If the openstack.deviceName property is omitted, the volume is mapped to the default device for the
guest OS of the instance.

Back Up Volumes: Service details

The general steps for using this service template to back up a volume are as follows.
1. Create temporary volumes from the backup-source volumes as follows:
a. Specify names for the temporary volumes. Optionally, you can also specify instance names and
volume names. - Temporary volumes (except for instances or server images that are not
supported) are created for volumes that are managed by Cinder and that satisfy at least one of the
following conditions:
I. The volume is allocated to the instance specified by the property openstack.instanceName.
II. The volume is specified by the property openstack.volumeNames.
b. Make sure that the created temporary volumes are the same type as the backup-source volumes.
c. If you specify a TO address, an email message is sent when the creation of temporary volumes
finishes. Optionally, you can also specify CC and BCC addresses, as well as the subject, body, and
encoding of the email message.
2. Back up the temporary volumes.
a. Specify a container for storing the temporary volumes, temporary volume names, and temporary
volume IDs.
b. Information about the backed-up temporary volumes is output to the specified remote CSV file. The
character encoding for this file is the default character encoding used on the OpenStack control
server. If the CSV file specified by the property openstack.backupOutputFilePath exists, backup
information is added to that file. If the CSV file specified by the property
openstack.backupOutputFilePath does not exist, the file is created.
3. Delete the temporary volumes.
a. Specify the temporary volume names and IDs.
Note the following when specifying properties:
1. The following items are output to the file in CSV (comma-separated value) format:
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