Create Protection Group

POST https://{{cluster_vip}}/v2/data-protect/protection-groups

Creates a Protection Group for protecting Generic NAS.

Considerations:

  • policyId , storageDomainId and the ID of the Isilon source to be protected are required in the request body for running this API.
  • For protecting Generic NAS of type SMB ensure to enter the protocol value as kCifs1, kCifs2, or kCifs3 in the request body.
  • The protectionGroupId from the API response is required for running the Protection Group for protecting the Isilon source.

HEADERS

KeyDatatypeRequiredDescription
Authorizationstring
Content-Typestring

RESPONSES

status: Created

{"id":"8743635867054034:1666901032964:413694","name":"Windows_NAS_Protection","policyId":"8743635867054034:1666901032964:413488","priority":"kMedium","storageDomainId":24,"startTime":{"hour":16,"minute":33,"timeZone":"America/Vancouver"},"alertPolicy":{"backupRunStatus":["kFailure"],"alertTargets":[]},"sla":[{"backupRunType":"kIncremental","slaMinutes":60},{"backupRunType":"kFull","slaMinutes":120}],"qosPolicy":"kBackupHDD","abortInBlackouts":false,"isActive":true,"isPaused":false,"environment":"kGenericNas","permissions":null,"missingEntities":null,"genericNasParams":{"objects":[{"id":25278,"name":"\\\\hostname\\CIFS-1"}],"indexingPolicy":{"enableIndexing":true,"includePaths":["/"],"excludePaths":["/$Recycle.Bin","/Windows","/Program Files","/Program Files (x86)","/ProgramData","/System Volume Information","/Users/*/AppData","/Recovery","/var","/usr","/sys","/proc","/lib","/grub","/grub2","/opt","/splunk"]},"fileFilters":{"includeList":["/"],"excludeList":["/.snapshot/"]},"protocol":"kNfs3"}}