Create Protection Group

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

Creates a Protection Group for protecting your VMware vCenter VMs.

Considerations

  • policyId , storageDomainId and the ID of the VMware VMs to be protected are required in the request body for running this API.
  • The protectionGroupId from the API response is required for running the Protection Group for protecting the VMware vCenter.

HEADERS

KeyDatatypeRequiredDescription
Authorizationstring

RESPONSES

status: Created

{"id":"8046495520451254:1678033142627:123","policyId":"8046495520451254:1678033142627:1","startTime":{"hour":6,"minute":22,"timeZone":"Africa/Abidjan"},"priority":"kMedium","sla":[{"backupRunType":"kFull","slaMinutes":120},{"backupRunType":"kIncremental","slaMinutes":60}],"qosPolicy":"kBackupHDD","abortInBlackouts":false,"storageDomainId":31,"name":"VMware_backup","environment":"kVMware","isPaused":false,"description":"","alertPolicy":{"backupRunStatus":["kFailure"],"alertTargets":[]},"vmwareParams":{"objects":[{"id":3328,"isAutoprotected":false}],"excludeObjectIds":[],"vmTagIds":[],"excludeVmTagIds":[],"appConsistentSnapshot":false,"fallbackToCrashConsistentSnapshot":true,"skipPhysicalRDMDisks":false,"globalExcludeDisks":[],"leverageSanTransport":false,"enableNBDSSLFallback":true,"leverageHyperflexSnapshots":false,"leverageNutanixSnapshots":false,"leverageStorageSnapshots":false,"cloudMigration":false,"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"]},"excludeFilters":[],"standbyResourceObjects":[]}}