5.7. Backup-Restore API Overview
This feature provides Independent Software Vendors (ISV) with the ability to back up and restore VMs. A set of APIs in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager provides the ability to take a full backup of a virtual machine, as well as full restores of virtual machines and file-level restores of virtual machines. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization's backup and restore features are REST API driven (and not GUI/User driven).
The Backup-Restore API for ISV offers the following features:
- Full virtual machine backups
- Full virtual machine restoration from backup
- File-level backup
- File-level restoration from backup
- LAN Free Backup (SAN access to the disk devices out of the box)