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  • About Amazon S3 Bucket
  • Required permissions
  • Set up Amazon S3 Bucket Access Key as a customer managed storage
  • Create a new Amazon S3 Access Key storage
  • Set up storage settings
  • Create Amazon S3 Bucket
  • Create AWS Access Key
  • Provide the Service Endpoint URL (Optional)
  • Provide additional HTTP headers (Optional)
  • Save storage
  • Change the storage for a repository
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Amazon S3 Bucket via Access Key

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About Amazon S3 Bucket

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. This means customers of all sizes and industries can use it to store and protect any amount of data for a range of use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.

Required permissions

  • s3:PutObject - required, for backup archive upload to Amazon S3 bucket

  • s3:GetObject - optional, for backup restore and instant download from Amazon S3 bucket

  • s3:DeleteObject - optional, for retention policy, automatic removal of outdated backups from Amazon S3 bucket

  • s3:GetBucketLocation - optional, required to automatically determine the Service Endpoint URL

  • s3:PutObjectRetention - optional, required for the header x-amz-object-lock-mode

  • s3:PutObjectLegalHold - optional, required for the header x-amz-object-lock-legal-hold

  • s3:PutObjectTagging - optional, required for the header x-amz-tagging

Set up Amazon S3 Bucket Access Key as a customer managed storage

To set up Amazon S3 Bucket Access Key as a storage for your backups, follow the steps below.

Create a new Amazon S3 Access Key storage

  • Type a storage name in the Storage name field. Use a name that will help you identify this storage in the future.

  • Select Amazon S3 AccessKey from a Storage Provider dropdown:

Set up storage settings

Choose the settings for the storage:

Create Amazon S3 Bucket

Cloudback needs the ARN of the bucket to access it. To find the ARN, click on the name of your bucket in the S3 console and open the Properties tab. Copy the ARN and paste it in the Step 1 field on the Cloudback site.

Create AWS Access Key

Type it's id and secret to Step 2 fields on the New Storage page.

Provide the Service Endpoint URL (Optional)

The service endpoint URL can be used to access the Amazon S3 bucket. If you don't provide the service endpoint URL, Cloudback will try to determine it automatically using the s3:GetBucketLocation permission. In general, the service endpoint URL can be used for every S3-compatible storage.

Provide additional HTTP headers (Optional)

Save storage

Change the storage for a repository

Learn more

Deduplication type - enable or disable data deduplication. For more details, please refer to the documentation

Archive type - enable or disable archive password protection. For more details, please refer to the documentation

Archive name pattern - configure the archive name pattern, which is used to generate the name of the backup archive. For more details, please refer to the documentation

To upload backups to Amazon S3 Bucket, you need to create a bucket. You can skip this step if you already have a bucket. You can find more information on how to create a bucket in the .

Cloudback accesses your Amazon S3 bucket using an AWS Access Key. You need to create a new Access Key in the AWS Management Console. You can find more information on how to create an Access Key in the .

Insert the service endpoint URL in the Step 3 field on the New Storage page. You can learn more about the service endpoint URL in the .

In the Step 5 field you can provide additional HTTP headers to be used when uploading backups to the Amazon S3 bucket. The headers can be used to set the or headers.

Deduplication
Password-Protected Backups
Archive Name Pattern
Amazon S3 documentation
Amazon S3 documentation
Amazon S3 documentation
S3 Object Lock
S3 Object Tagging
Customer Managed Storages
Dashboard Overview
Repository Details
Bulk Operations
Replicating Backups
S3 Object Lock
S3 Object Lock
S3 Object Tagging
  • Navigate to the Storages page by clicking on the Storages link in the left-side navigation pane

  • Click on the + New storage button:

Open the

Cloudback Dashboard

Click on Save button to save the new storage. You can also use a Test button to check if the storage is configured correctly. After saving the storage, you can use it for storing backups of your repositories.

All storage settings can be changed later in the Storages page. To edit the storage settings, click on the Edit button next to the storage you want to edit.

You can change the storage for a particular repository in the page. Also, you can assign it to multiple repositories through the .

Repository Details
Bulk Operations
Amazon S3 AccessKey storage settings
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