Amazon S3 Glacier

Use Amazon S3 Glacier as a low-cost, long-term storage solution for your GitHub repository backups in Cloudback, with comprehensive security and compliance capabilities.

About Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive are secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage classes for data archiving and long-term backup. They are designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements.

Required permissions

The following permissions are required to use Amazon S3 Glacier as a storage for your backups:

• glacier:UploadArchive

• glacier:DeleteArchive

• glacier:InitiateJob

• glacier:GetJobOutput

• glacier:InitiateMultipartUpload

• glacier:CompleteMultipartUpload

• glacier:AbortMultipartUpload

• glacier:UploadMultiPart

• glacier:UploadMultipartPart

• glacier:DescribeJob

Set up Amazon S3 Glacier as a customer managed storage

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

Create a new Amazon S3 Access Point storage

• Open the Cloudback Dashboard

• Navigate to the Storages page by clicking on the Storages link in the left-side navigation pane

• Click on the + New storage button:

Add new 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 Glacier from a Storage Provider dropdown:

Amazon S3 Glacier storage settings

Set up storage settings

Choose the settings for the storage:

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

• Archive type - enable or disable archive password protection. For more details, please refer to the Password-Protected Archives 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 Archive Name Pattern documentation

Create a new Amazon S3 Glacier Vault

To upload backups to Amazon S3 Glacier, you need to have a vault. You can find more information on how to create a vault in the Amazon S3 Glacier documentation. After creating a vault, you need to provide the Vault ARN in the Step 1 field. If you already have a vault, you can just provide the ARN of the existing vault.

Apply vault access policy

After you type a vault ARN in the Step 1 field, Cloudback will generate a vault access policy for you. The generated policy document is available in the Step 2 field. You need to apply this policy to the vault to allow Cloudback to access it. For more information on how to apply the vault access policy, please refer to the corresponding Amazon S3 Glacier documentation page.

Save storage

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.

Change the storage for a repository

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

Learn more

• Customer Managed Storages

• Dashboard Overview

• Repository Details

• Bulk Operations

• Replicating Backups