Backing up buckets

With R‑Cloud, you can back up your Amazon S3 and Google Cloud bucket data securely and efficiently.

Prerequisites

  • For Google Cloud:

    • If you plan to back up buckets for which a Shared VPC subnet is specified in configuration, your user account or the HYCU Managed Service Account (HMSA) must be granted the following permissions in the Shared VPC host project: compute.firewalls.list, compute.networks.list, compute.networks.get, compute.subnetworks.list, compute.subnetworks.use, and compute.subnetworks.get.

    • Only if the target defined in the policy that you plan to assign to buckets has a service account other than the HMSA specified. The service account must be granted access to the projects with the buckets that you want to protect.

Limitation

For AWS: Backing up bucket objects that are stored in the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes is not supported.

Consideration

The information on the bucket size becomes available in the Detail view after you assign a policy to the bucket. Keep in mind that this size is always rounded up to the full unit, the minimum being 1 GiB.

To access the Buckets panel, in the navigation pane, click Buckets Buckets.

Procedure

  1. In the Buckets panel, select the buckets that you want to back up. You can update the bucket list by clicking Synchronize Refresh.

    Tip  To narrow down the list of displayed buckets, you can use the filtering options as described in Filtering and sorting data.

  2. Click Policies Set Policy. The Set Policy dialog box opens.

  3. From the list of available policies, select the preferred policy.

  4. Click Assign to assign the policy to the selected buckets.

    Important  Only if one or more buckets that you want to back up reside on a different cloud platform than the target defined in the policy. Click Assign Anyway if you want to assign the policy to the bucket. This may result in data transfer fees. To cancel assigning the policy, click Cancel.

After you assign a policy to a bucket, a backup task starts immediately. Subsequent backups are scheduled according to the values defined in the policy.

If required, you can also perform a manual backup of any bucket at any time. For details, see Performing manual backups.