OpenStack Swift

Configure OpenStack Swift as a storage solution for your repository backups in Cloudback using the S3-compatible API for seamless integration.

About OpenStack Swift

The OpenStack Object Store project, known as Swift, offers cloud storage software so that you can store and retrieve lots of data with a simple API. It's built for scale and optimized for durability, availability, and concurrency across the entire data set. Swift is ideal for storing unstructured data that can grow without bound.

Cloudback supports OpenStack Swift via S3 API. You can check out the General compatibility statement in the OpenStack Swift documentation.

Set up OpenStack Swift Container as a customer managed storage

To set up OpenStack Swift as a storage for your backups, follow the steps below.

Create a new OpenStack Swift 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 Swift S3 from a Storage Provider dropdown:

OpenStack Swift 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

Provide OpenStack Swift Server URL

In the Step 1, provide the OpenStack Swift Server URL. The URL is used to connect to the OpenStack Swift storage.

Enter container name

In the Step 2, provide the container name. The container is used to store backups in the OpenStack Swift storage. You can find more information on how to create a container in the OpenStack Swift documentation.

Provide OpenStack Access Key ID and Access Key Secret

In the Step 3, provide the Access Key ID and Access Key Secret of EC2 credentials. These credentials are used to authenticate Cloudback with OpenStack Swift. You can learn more about how to configure the storage in the OpenStack Swift documentation.

Provide additional HTTP headers (Optional)

In the Step 4 field you can provide additional HTTP headers to be used when uploading backups to the container. The headers can be used to set the S3 Object Lock or S3 Object Tagging headers.

Note: S3 Object Lock support depends on the OpenStack Swift implementation and may not be available in all deployments. Please verify that your OpenStack Swift provider supports S3 Object Lock before enabling this feature.

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