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Add customer-facing documentation for Backup as a Service - #557

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Add customer-facing documentation for Backup as a Service#557
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We add guides for:

  • Taking a Cinder backup from a volume (covers both incremental and full backups, and encrypted and non-encrypted volumes),
  • restoring a Cinder volume from a backup,
  • scheduling backups, and
  • deleting backups.

We also add a background explainer on BaaS.

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fix: Update the OpenStack limitations page in light of cinder-backup
fa50e89 
We now offer the cinder-backup service, so make sure it is
not mentioned as unsupported in the OpenStack limitations page.
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docs: Add How-To guide on creating Cinder volume backups
7d7b14f 
Using the OpenStack CLI, we show how to create full or
incremental backups of available, attached, or encrypted volumes.
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fix: Update navigation for BaaS How-To guides
3d02ba3 
We update the navigation of the OpenStack Cinder
subsection, in light of the new BaaS How-To guides.
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docs: Add How-To guide on restoring Cinder volume backups
d3322c7 
Using the OpenStack CLI, we show how to restore existing
Cinder backups to new or existing volumes.
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docs: Add How-To guide on scheduling Cinder backup jobs
e1c04bb 
We show how to register a new Freezer scheduler,
and then how to create and manage Cinder backup jobs.
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docs: Add background explainer on BaaS
ca73b8a 
We explain what the Backup as a Service
is, what it offers, and how it works.
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feat: Explain how the Recovery service is different from BaaS
acf61c7 
We add a note pointing out the differences
between the Recovery service and the BaaS offering.
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docs: Add How-To guide on deleting volume backups
5b871fc 
We show how to delete Cinder volume backups,
and explain when such an operation fails.
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@fghaas That's more like it.

@colder-is-better colder-is-better changed the title [EDU-10833] Add customer-facing documentation for Backup as a Service Add customer-facing documentation for Backup as a Service Oct 5, 2026
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Looks good, thanks!

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fghaas merged commit 5b871fc into cleura:sto-com Oct 5, 2026
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Merged. Please queue up a draft PR for removing the "Service availability" admonitions.

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feat: Add reference information on volume backup
05cf50e 
In addition to the how-to guides which only go into the sto-com branch,
we also need to mention cinder-backup in the service feature reference.

References:
#557
#565
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