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Recipe: Adding Backup Repository using the Web UI
Expected deliverables:
A backup repository for EC2 and RDS image-level backups, additional copies of Amazon VPC backups, indexes of EFS file systems and Veeam Backup for AWS configuration backups.
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
- A AWS S3 bucket created using S3 Standard, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes.
- If you want to enable Immutability, then the Amazon S3 bucket must be created with S3 Object Lock and S3 Versioning enabled.
Before you start: You can either add an existing folder for storing backup files or create a new one.
Assumptions:
You have an existing Veeam Backup for AWS deployment.
Method:
- In a web browser, navigate to the Veeam Backup for AWS web address. Also you can access from VBR Console, from Backup Infrastructure > Managed Server, righ-click to the Veeam for AWS Appliance, and then click in Open Console
- Click in Configuration in the upper-right corner, then navigate to Repositories and click in Add
- At the Repository Info step, provide a Name and Description for the new backup repository.
- At the Bucket step, select an IAM Role with enough privileges to work with the AWS S3 Bucket.
- At the Location section, click the Choose bucket link.
- In the Choose storage bucket window, select a storage bucket that will be used as a target location for backups. Click Apply.
- To use an existing repository, select the Use existing repository option and click Choose repository. In the Choose repository window, select the necessary folder and click Apply.
- To create a new folder, select the Create new repository option and specify a name for the folder. Then, in the Storage class section, select a storage class for the backup repository either S3 Standard, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive.
- Click Next.
- At the Encryption step, choose whether you want to encrypt backups in this storage bucket. If you enable encryption, specify a password that will be used to encrypt data or choose a KMS Encryption Key from the dropdown list. Click Next.
- At the Summary step, review summary information and click Finish.
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