In my previous post, we shared about configure Nakivo Backup & Replication on Amazon S3 using Storage gateway. NAKIVO has another capacity to store backups to AWS (Amazon Web Services) Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) environment. Using this feature, you can keep a copy of your critical backups to offsite and your data will be available in case of a local disaster.
In this post, we will share the procedure to configure Nakivo Backup & Replication to AWS EC2.
Prerequisites
Procedure
AWS IAM
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manage AWS users and groups, and use permissions to allow and deny their access to AWS resources. IAM is a feature of your AWS account offered at no additional charge.
Here we need to perform below from AWS console
Configure Nakivo BR for AWS EC2
As mentioned above we have to add the AWS account to Inventory.
As you can see there is no instance available and the next step is to create a New Transporter
Note:- Since you have selected automatically create VPC, you can check in the AWS console whether VPC created or not and you will find same as below image.
Next step is to configure the Backup Repository
Now We can create backup job and Schedule or manually run as per requirement to keep an offsite copy to AWS to save the data in case of a disaster in your enevirionment.
Create a Backup Job
We can create this backup job for offsite purpose and this backup repository as a secondary one in Amazon cloud. Backing up data are transferred via AES 256 encrypted link to AWS and it has great security for the data integrity.
Provide a Job Name and configure the required options and click on Finish / FInish & Run
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Conclusion
We have successfully configured the AWS account and backup job on NAKIVO Backup & Replication to AWS EC2, You can follow the steps shared in this post to keep your data safe in AWS cloud. This is an awesome feature provided by NAKIVO to keep your data safe in AWS could with security and integrity. You can keep the backup data as offsite data in AWS and you can use that in case of any disaster in your local site. Also, You can back up your EC2 instances to the same AWS region, to a different AWS region, or to your own datacenter.
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