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Recipe: Editing and Enabling VPC Configuration Backup Policy
Expected deliverables:
Editing and enabling the preconfigured VPC Configuration Backup policy to protect the AWS VPC Configuration.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- If you want to enable an additional Backup Copy, then you need an AWS S3 Bucket configured as Backup Repository. Otherwise the VPC configuration backups is stored ONLY in the Veeam Backup for AWS database.
Before you start: Veeam Backup for AWS comes with a preconfigured VPC Configuration Backup policy, which is disabled by default. You must edit the policy and then enable it to protect AWS VPC Configuration.
Assumptions: You have an existing Veeam Backup for AWS deployment.
Method:
- Login the Veeam Backup for AWS web interface. Navigate to Policies > VPC and Click in Edit
- At the Regions step, select AWS Regions whose VPC configuration you want to back up.
- As an option, you can enable the Automatically collect VPC settings option, so Veeam will protect the VPC configuration of all AWS Regions specified in EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift Clusters, Redshift Serverless, EFS and FSx backup policy settings.
- In the Additional regions section, you can add Regions manually. Click in Add, and then select the Regions to be protected, and an IAM Role with proper privileges.
- At the Target step, you can use the Enable additional copy to send a copy of the VPC Configuration Backup to a Veeam Repository. If enabled, then in the Repository window, select a backup repository that will be used for this purpose. Click in Apply
- At the Retention step, set the retention for VPC configuration backups. Clock the Collect data link and choose the frequency and retention for this Policy.
- At the Settings step, you can set email notification for the policy or leave the default.
- At the Summary step, review configuration information and click Finish to complete the edition of the Policy.
- Then, in the Policies > VPC section, select the Policy and click in Enable to Enable the VPC Configuration Backup policy.
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