Create Block-Based Protection Group

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

Creates a block-based Protection Group for protecting your Windows physical server.

Considerations:

  • policyId , storageDomainId and the ID of the physical server source to be protected are required in the request body for running this API.
  • For block-based Protection Group, ensure the protectionType value in the request body is KVolume.
  • The protectionGroupId from the API response is required for running the Protection Group for protecting the physical server.

HEADERS

KeyDatatypeRequiredDescription
Authorizationstring
Content-Typestring

RESPONSES

status: Created

{"id":"1867183226494767:1669693131113:54724","name":"Windows_bb","policyId":"1867183226494767:1669693131113:3","priority":"kMedium","storageDomainId":5,"description":"","startTime":{"hour":15,"minute":2,"timeZone":"Asia/Calcutta"},"alertPolicy":{"backupRunStatus":["kFailure"],"alertTargets":[]},"sla":[{"backupRunType":"kIncremental","slaMinutes":60},{"backupRunType":"kFull","slaMinutes":120}],"qosPolicy":"kBackupHDD","abortInBlackouts":false,"isActive":true,"isPaused":false,"environment":"kPhysical","permissions":null,"missingEntities":null,"physicalParams":{"protectionType":"kVolume","volumeProtectionTypeParams":{"objects":[{"id":3795,"name":"{{object_name}}","volumeGuids":null}],"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"]},"performSourceSideDeduplication":false,"incrementalBackupAfterRestart":true,"dedupExclusionSourceIds":null,"excludedVssWriters":null}}}