[openstack-dev] [api] [cinder] backup restore in api v2

Sean McGinnis sean.mcginnis at gmx.com
Wed Aug 15 13:00:11 UTC 2018


On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 07:52:47AM -0500, Sean McGinnis wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 09:32:45AM +0200, Artem Goncharov wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have recently faced an interesting question: is there no backup restore
> > functionality in block-storage api v2? There is possibility to create
> > backup, but not to restore it according to
> > https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/block-storage/v2/index.html#backups-backups.
> > Version v3 ref contain restore function. What is also interesting, that
> > cinderclient contain the restore function for v2. Is this just a v2
> > documentation bug (what I assume) or was it an unsupported function in v2?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Artem
> 
> Thanks for pointing that out Artem. That does appear to be a documentation bug.
> The backup API has not changed, so v2 and v3 should be identical in that
> regard. We will need to update our docs to reflect that.
> 
> Sean

Ah, we just did a really good job of hiding it:

https://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/block-storage/v2/index.html#restore-backup

I see the formatting for that document is off so that it actually appears as a
section under the delete documentation. I will get that fixed.

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