{"id":18436,"date":"2016-10-12T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=18436"},"modified":"2020-03-15T18:02:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T17:02:36","slug":"nakivo-backup-replication-storing-backups-aws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/nakivo-backup-replication-storing-backups-aws\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakivo Backup &#038; Replication storing backups to AWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18705 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws01\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws01.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws01\" width=\"602\" height=\"202\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With Nakivo\u00a0Backup &amp; Replication you can store <strong>backups to AWS<\/strong> (Amazon Web Services) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) environment.<\/p>\n<p>This solution increase the data protection allowing the administrators to follow\u00a0the <strong>321 backup rule<\/strong>. Having at least one copy of your <strong>critical backups offsite<\/strong>\u00a0you can save your data in case of a local disaster.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Prerequisites<\/h2>\n<p>In order to backup your VMs to Amazon cloud, you need to <strong>configure the AWS environment<\/strong>\u00a0first:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>To <strong>access the Amazon cloud<\/strong> from Nakivo you need to create a dedicated <strong>User<\/strong> from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/console.aws.amazon.com\/iam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AWS IAM Console<\/a>. A IAM (Identity and Access Management) user is used to control who can use your AWS resources (authentication) and what resources they can use and in what ways (authorization).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18706 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws02\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws02-600x200.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws02\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a <strong>Group<\/strong> (i.e. <em>NakivoBackup<\/em>), assign the <strong>Users membership<\/strong> and attach the requested <strong>Policies\u00a0<\/strong>to grant specific permissions to access the EC2 instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18707 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws03\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws03-600x347.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws03\" width=\"600\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Configure Nakivo for AWS<\/h2>\n<p>To <strong>establish the connection<\/strong> with an\u00a0EMC2 instance, you\u00a0need to configure the AWS Account in the <strong>Inventory<\/strong>,\u00a0add a new <strong>Transporter<\/strong> then add a new <strong>Repository<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Access the Nakivo web console and click on <strong>Configuration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18708 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws04\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws04-600x275.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws04\" width=\"600\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Inventory<\/strong> tab, click <strong>Add New<\/strong> button then select <strong>AWS Account<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18709 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws05\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws05.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws05\" width=\"558\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enter a <strong>Display name<\/strong> and select <strong>AWS account<\/strong>\u00a0as\u00a0<strong>Type<\/strong>\u00a0from the drop-down menu. Enter the <strong>AWS access Key ID<\/strong> and the <strong>Secret access key<\/strong>\u00a0you got during the user creation (check <em>IAM Console &gt; Users &gt; Security Credentials<\/em>) then click <strong>Add<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18710 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws06\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws06-600x206.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws06\" width=\"600\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new Inventory is being added to Nakivo.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18711 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws07\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws07.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws07\" width=\"555\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the AWS Inventory has been added, the available<strong>\u00a0Regions<\/strong>\u00a0are displayed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18712 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws08\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws08.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws08\" width=\"538\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To start using Amazon EC2, a virtual server known as an <strong>Amazon EC2 instance<\/strong>\u00a0has to be launched. Select <strong>Transporter<\/strong> tab and click <strong>Add Transporter<\/strong> button. Select <strong>Deploy new transporter (AWS EC2)<\/strong>\u00a0option.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18713 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws09\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws09.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws09\" width=\"550\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enter the <strong>Transporter Name<\/strong>\u00a0and specify the <strong>Transporter type<\/strong>. Select the <strong>Region<\/strong>\u00a0on which you want to deploy the transporter and specify the <strong>Instance type<\/strong>.\u00a0Leave <strong>Automatically configure VPC for this transporter<\/strong>\u00a0option enabled\u00a0and click <strong>Deploy<\/strong>\u00a0to start the deployment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18714 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws10\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws10-600x359.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws10\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new AWS transporter is being added to the system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18715 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws11\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws11.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws11\" width=\"548\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The transporter has been added successfully.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18716 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws12\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws12.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws12\" width=\"563\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select <strong>Repositories<\/strong>\u00a0tab and click <strong>Add Backup Repository<\/strong> button. Select <strong>Create new backup repository<\/strong>\u00a0option.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18717 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws13\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws13-600x237.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws13\" width=\"600\" height=\"237\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify the <strong>Name<\/strong>, the <strong>Assigned Transporter<\/strong> and\u00a0select from the drop down menu <strong>Amazon EBS<\/strong> item as <strong>Type<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18718 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws14\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws14-600x410.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws14\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Optionally you can specify a schedule to <strong>Detach\/Attach<\/strong> the repository.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18719 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws15\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws15-600x66.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws15\" width=\"600\" height=\"66\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new repository is being added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18720 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws16\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws16.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws16\" width=\"560\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The repository has been created successfully.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18747 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws17\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws17-600x522.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws17\" width=\"600\" height=\"522\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Configure a backup to AWS<\/h2>\n<p>Storing your backup copies to a local\u00a0repository only doesn't\u00a0protect the data in case of <strong>local storage failure<\/strong>.\u00a0Placing the secondary backup repository in Amazon cloud, you can guarantee a better\u00a0security for the data integrity. Data are\u00a0transferred via <strong>AES 256 encrypted link<\/strong> and\u00a0only changed data are transferred to the offsite repository since Nakivo performs\u00a0<strong>forever-incremental backups<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>From the <strong>Dashboard<\/strong>\u00a0menu, click\u00a0<strong>Create<\/strong>\u00a0and select <strong>Backup copy job<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18722 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws18\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws18-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws18\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the <strong>source backup<\/strong> to copy offsite then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18723 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws19\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws19-600x351.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws19\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select\u00a0the previously configured <strong>AWS Backup repository<\/strong> and click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18724 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws20\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws20-600x287.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws20\" width=\"600\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Specify a <strong>Schedule<\/strong> and click <strong>Next<\/strong> when done.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18725 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws21\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws21-600x282.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws21\" width=\"600\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Give a <strong>Job Name<\/strong> and configure the available options. Specify the desired <strong>Recovery points retention<\/strong> and click <strong>Finish<\/strong> to save the configuration.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18726 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws22\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws22-600x395.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws22\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To run\u00a0the job immediately, right click the backup copy job just created and select <strong>Run Job<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18727 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws23\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws23-600x423.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws23\" width=\"600\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <strong>Run<\/strong> to confirm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18728 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws24\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws24-600x252.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws24\" width=\"600\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The selected VMs are copied to the Amazon EC2 instance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18729 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws25\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws25-600x383.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws25\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the job has completed, you can check <strong>result and statistics<\/strong>\u00a0directly in the Dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18730 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws26\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws26-600x383.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws26\" width=\"600\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Granular recover from AWS backups<\/h2>\n<p>With Nakivo\u00a0you can recover files, Microsoft Exchange objects, and Microsoft Active Directory objects from <strong>compressed and deduplicated<\/strong> AWS EC2 backups without recovering the full AWS EC2 instance first.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18731 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws27\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws27-600x369.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws27\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the <strong>Dashboard<\/strong>\u00a0menu click <strong>Recover<\/strong>\u00a0and select <strong>Individual files<\/strong>\u00a0option.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18732 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws28\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws28.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws28\" width=\"581\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select a <strong>backup<\/strong> and specify the <strong>recovery point<\/strong>\u00a0to use then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18733 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws29\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws29-600x350.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws29\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the files to recover then click <strong>Download Selected<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18734 size-large\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws30\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws30-600x397.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws30\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check the <strong>Download folder<\/strong>\u00a0to find the recovered files.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18735 size-full\" title=\"nakivobackuptoaws31\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nakivobackuptoaws31.jpg\" alt=\"nakivobackuptoaws31\" width=\"554\" height=\"251\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using Amazon AWS to store copies of your backups, you can have a <strong>fast, reliable, and affordable<\/strong> cloud repository.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"signature\" src=\"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/firma.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Nakivo\u00a0Backup &amp; Replication you can store backups to AWS (Amazon Web Services) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) environment. This solution increase the data protection allowing the administrators to follow\u00a0the 321 backup rule. Having at least one copy of your critical backups offsite\u00a0you can save your data in case of a local disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[2138,1697,903],"tags":[2155,579,1695],"class_list":["post-18436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-backup-en","category-nakivo-en","category-vmware-en","tag-amazon-en-2","tag-backup-en","tag-nakivo","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}