HP OneView - Manual (Page 172)

REST APIs let you to:
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Schedule a backup process from outside the appliance.
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Collect backup files according to your site policies.
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Integrate with enterprise backup and restore products.
UI screens and REST API resources
REST API resource UI screen
backups Settings →Actions
24.2 Roles
Users with Infrastructure administrator and Backup administrator privileges can create and download
backup files, however, only the Infrastructure administrator can restore an appliance from a backup
file.
The Backup administrator has the authority to use scripts to log in to the appliance and run scripts
to back up the appliance. This role is specifically intended for scripted backup creation and
download. HP recommends that users with this role should not initiate interactive login sessions
through the HP OneView user interface.
24.3 Best practices for backing up an appliance
Description Method
Always use the HP OneView backup feature to back up your appliance.
CAUTION: Do not use any hypervisor-provided capabilities or snapshots to back up HP OneView
appliances because doing so can cause synchronization errors and result in unpredictable and
unwanted behavior.
Creating
HP recommends performing regular backups, preferably daily, and especially after adding hardware,
changing the appliance configuration, and before and after updating the appliance firmware.
If you added server hardware to the appliance after the backup file was created, that hardware is
not in the appliance database when the restore process completes. You must add that hardware
to the appliance and then repeat any other configuration changes (such as assigning server profiles)
that were made between the time the backup file was created and the restore process completed.
You can back up the appliance while it is in use and while normal activity is taking place. You do
not need to wait for tasks to stop before creating a backup file.
Frequency
The backup file format is proprietary, however, HP recommends that after you create and download
the backup file you encrypt, and then safely store the backup file to protect your sensitive data.
HP recommends using an enterprise backup product such as HP Data Protector to archive backup
files. For information on HP Data Protector, see the following website:
http://www.hp.com/go/dataprotector
HP provides REST APIs for integration with enterprise backup products.
Archiving
24.4 Determining your backup policy
A backup file is an encrypted snapshot of the appliance configuration and management data at
the time the backup file was created. HP recommends that you create regular backups, preferably
once a day and after you make hardware or software configuration changes in the managed
environment.
As an alternative to using Settings
→Actions→Create backup from the appliance UI, you can write
and run a script to automatically create and download an appliance backup file. You can schedule
172 Backing up an appliance