Dimension Data are a global IT Services company and form part of the NTT Group. Dimension Data provide IT-as-a-Service to customers around the globe on their cloud platform (Compute as a Service). The CaaS service is available either on one of the public cloud instances or as a private instance on premises.
Backup-as-a-Service includes Cloud Backup, Cloud Backup has its own non-standard API , libcloud provides a Python wrapper on top of this API with common methods with other IaaS solutions and Public cloud providers. Therefore, you can use use the Dimension Data libcloud driver to communicate with both the public and private clouds.
When you instantiate a driver you need to pass the following arguments to the driver constructor:
user_id- Your Dimension Data Cloud usernamekey- Your Dimension Data Cloud passwordregion- The region key, one of the possible region keys
Possible regions:
dd-na: Dimension Data North America (USA)dd-eu: Dimension Data Europedd-af: Dimension Data Africadd-au: Dimension Data Australiadd-latam: Dimension Data Latin Americadd-ap: Dimension Data Asia Pacificdd-canada: Dimension Data Canada region
The base libcloud API allows you to:
- enable backups, add backup clients and configure backup clients
The Dimension Data driver exposes some libcloud non-standard functionalities through extension methods and arguments.
These functionalities include:
- set retention periods
- configure secondary copes
For information on how to use these functionalities please see the method docstrings below. You can also use an interactive shell for exploration as shown in the examples.
.. autoclass:: libcloud.backup.drivers.dimensiondata.DimensionDataBackupDriver
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