# Wasabi Customer Managed Storage

## About Wasabi

[Wasabi](https://wasabi.com/) is a public cloud object storage service that is 1/5th the price of Amazon S3 and faster than the competition with no fees for egress or API requests. Wasabi provides 11 x 9s of data durability, high system availability, and support for immutable storage buckets. Wasabi is fully compatible with the Amazon S3 API with support for hundreds of S3-compatible storage applications and has been certified for compliance with enterprise security and privacy standards.

## Set up Wasabi Bucket as a customer managed storage

To set up Wasabi Bucket as a storage for your backups, follow the steps below.

### Create a new Wasabi storage

* Open the [Cloudback Dashboard](https://app.cloudback.it/)
* Navigate to the `Storages` page by clicking on the `Storages` link in the left-side navigation pane
* Click on the `Add a new storage` button:

![Add new storage](https://2781059148-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FQEI7SjBF2CddqNXZpCoE%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-48c773c5876576956efc547df9c59cfec230772b%2Fcustomer-managed-storages.png?alt=media)

* Type a storage name in the `Storage name` field. Use a name that will help you identify this storage in the future.
* Select `Wasabi S3` from a Storage Provider dropdown:

![Wasabi S3 storage settings](https://2781059148-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FQEI7SjBF2CddqNXZpCoE%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-df77d149cc00f290a08f86e17133ee329574f091%2Fcreate-new-storage-wasabi.png?alt=media)

### 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](https://docs.cloudback.it/managing-backups/data-deduplication) documentation
* **Archive type** - enable or disable archive password protection. For more details, please refer to the [Password-Protected Archives](https://docs.cloudback.it/security-and-compliance/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](https://docs.cloudback.it/managing-backups/archive-name-pattern) documentation

### Provide Wasabi Bucket ARN

To upload backups to Wasabi, you need to have a bucket. You can find more information on how to create a bucket in the [Wasabi documentation](https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/creating-a-bucket). You can use existing bucket if you already have one.

In the `Step 1`, provide the Bucket Region and Bucket ARN. Buckets from different regions have different [service URLs](https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/what-are-the-service-urls-for-wasabi-s-different-storage-regions), so it is important to select the correct region so that Cloudback can upload backups to your bucket.

### Provide Wasabi Access Key ID and Access Key Secret

In the `Step 2`, provide the Access Key ID and Access Key Secret. These credentials are used to authenticate Cloudback with Wasabi. You can find more information on how to create Access Key in the [Wasabi documentation](https://docs.wasabi.com/docs/creating-a-user-account-and-access-key#assigning-an-access-key).

### Provide additional HTTP headers (Optional)

In the `Step 3` field you can provide additional HTTP headers to be used when uploading backups to the bucket. The headers can be used to set the [S3 Object Lock](https://docs.cloudback.it/security-and-compliance/amazon-s3-object-lock) or [S3 Object Tagging](https://docs.cloudback.it/supported-storages/amazon-s3-object-tagging) headers.

### 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](https://docs.cloudback.it/dashboard/repository-details) page. Also, you can assign it to multiple repositories through the [Bulk Operations](https://docs.cloudback.it/managing-backups/bulk-operations).

## Learn More

* [Customer Managed Storages](https://docs.cloudback.it/storage-configuration/customer-managed-storages)
* [Dashboard Overview](https://docs.cloudback.it/dashboard/dashboard-overview)
* [Repository Details](https://docs.cloudback.it/dashboard/repository-details)
* [Bulk Operations](https://docs.cloudback.it/managing-backups/bulk-operations)
* [Replicating Backups](https://docs.cloudback.it/storage-configuration/replicating-backups)