Setting up an Amazon S3 target

Prerequisite

An AWS IAM role must be added to R‑Cloud. You can do this in one of the following ways:

  • By creating an IAM role as part of adding the where the target resides to R‑Cloud as a source. For instructions, see Managing sources.

  • By adding an IAM role to R‑Cloud as a cloud account. For instructions, see Adding AWS IAM roles.

Limitations

  • Storing data to a publicly available target is not supported.

  • Storing data to a target on which a lifecycle configuration is set is not supported and may result in data loss.

  • Only copies of backup data can be stored to a target with the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage tier. Keep in mind that AWS can charge you additionally for premature removal of data if the retention period specified in your policy is shorter than the recommended (minimum) retention period in AWS.

Considerations

  • You can set up the same target in multiple protection sets.

  • Storing data to a target that has Object Lock (WORM) enabled is supported.

Recommendation

The exclude policy is automatically assigned to the bucket that is added to R‑Cloud as a target. It is highly recommended that you do not change this default configuration.

To access the Targets panel, in the navigation pane, click Targets Targets. Alternatively, in the Dashboard panel, click the Targets widget title.

Procedure

  1. In the Targets panel, click Add Add.

  2. Select Amazon S3, and then click Next.

  3. Depending on the type of your bucket, click one of the following:

    • General purpose bucket

    • Directory bucket

  4. In the Target field, enter the name of the target.

  5. In the Size Quota field, specify the amount of storage space that should be used for storing data (in MiB, GiB, or TiB).

    Important  The specified amount represents a soft limit, therefore actual usage may exceed it.

  6. Use the Enforce quota switch to stop running backups if this target reaches its size quota. The backups will start running again after you increase the size quota of this target or assign a different policy to the entities. Such a policy must use a target with the sufficient size quota.

  7. From the Storage Class drop-down, select the storage class that you want to use for storing the data.

  8. From the Cloud Account drop-down menu, select the IAM role that you want to be used for performing all operations on the target.

    By clicking Add, you are automatically redirected to the dialog box that enables you to add the preferred cloud account to R‑Cloud, if not already added.

  9. Only if you are adding a directory bucket. In the Region field, enter the region of your bucket (for example, us-east-1).
  10. Click Save.

The target is added to the list of targets in the Targets panel. For details on managing targets, see Managing targets.