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  • About Amazon S3 Glacier
  • Required permissions
  • Set up Amazon S3 Glacier as a customer managed storage
  • Create a new Amazon S3 Access Point storage
  • Set up storage settings
  • Create a new Amazon S3 Glacier Vault
  • Apply vault access policy
  • Save storage
  • Change the storage for a repository
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  1. Supported Storages

Amazon S3 Glacier

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

  • 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:

Set up storage settings

Choose the settings for the storage:

Create a new Amazon S3 Glacier Vault

Apply vault access policy

Save storage

Change the storage for a repository

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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 Glacier, you need to have a vault. You can find more information on how to create a vault in the . 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.

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 .

Deduplication
Password-Protected Backups
Archive Name Pattern
Amazon S3 Glacier documentation
Amazon S3 Glacier documentation page
Customer Managed Storages
Dashboard Overview
Repository Details
Bulk Operations
Replicating Backups
Amazon S3 Glacier storage settings

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

  • Click on the + New storage button:

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