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Added info that NAS backup plugin supports cifs and ceph along with nfs.
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source/adminguide/backup_and_recovery.rst

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- **listBackups**: lists backups.
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- **restoreBackup**: restore a previous Instance backup in-place of a stopped or destroyed Instance.
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- **restoreVolumeFromBackupAndAttachToVM**: restore and attach a backed-up volume (of an Instance backup) to a specified Instance.
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- **createInstanceFromBackup**: create a new Instance from a backup.
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source/adminguide/nas_plugin.rst

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The NAS B&R plugin requires admin to first add backup repositories which are
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network-attached storage (shared storage). Currently it supports NFS, and may
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support other shared storage such as CephFS and CIFS/Samba in future.
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network-attached storage (shared storage). It supports NFS, CIFS/Samba and CephFS.
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When initiating B&R operations on KVM instance, the assigned backup offering
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is used to infer backup repository (NAS) details which are then used to mount
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the shared storage temporarily on the KVM host to perform instance backup/restore
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disks operations. This also requires that admin installs NAS-storage specific
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utilities on the KVM hosts such as nfs-utils/nfs-common (ceph-common, cifs-utils).
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utilities on the KVM hosts such as nfs-utils/nfs-common, ceph-common and cifs-utils.
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Consider the following mount, typically performed on a KVM/Linux host to mount storage:
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Name A suitable name to represent the Backup Repository
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Address URL, in case of NFS <server IP>:/path
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Type NFS ( only NFS type in 4.20)
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Type NFS / CIFS / CEPH
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label.mountopts Any mount point options to be passed while mouting this storage on the hypervisor.
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Zone The zone in CloudStack with which this Backup Repository must be associated.
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based primary storage pools, and restored volumes are fully baked disks (i.e.
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not using any backing template file).
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Restoring fully expunged and unmanaged instances are not supported. Backup and
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restore operations are not fully supported for CKS cluster instances and should
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Backup and restore operations are not fully supported for CKS cluster instances and should
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be avoided.

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