Veritas™ System Recovery 21 User's Guide
- Introducing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Installing Veritas System Recovery
- Ensuring the recovery of your computer
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Creation Options
- Storage and Network Drivers Options
- Customizing an existing Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About restoring a computer from a remote location by using LightsOut Restore
- Creating a new Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Getting Started
- Setting up default general backup options
- File types and file extension
- Best practices for backing up your data
- Backing up entire drives
- Backing up files and folders
- Running and managing backup jobs
- Running an existing backup job immediately
- Backing up remote computers from your computer
- Monitoring the status of your backups
- About monitoring backups
- Monitoring the backup status of remote computers using Veritas System Recovery Monitor
- Adding a remote computer to the Computer List
- Exploring the contents of a recovery point
- Managing backup destinations
- About managing file and folder backup data
- Managing virtual conversions
- Managing cloud storage
- Direct to cloud
- About creation of Amazon Machine Image (AMI) in Amazon from Veritas System Recovery backups
- About S3-Compatible Cloud Storage
- About Veritas System Recovery supporting Veritas Access
- Recovering files, folders, or entire drives
- Recovering a computer
- Booting a computer by using the Veritas System Recovery Disk
- About using the networking tools in Veritas System Recovery Disk
- Copying a hard drive
- Using the Veritas System Recovery Granular Restore Option
- Best practices when you create recovery points for use with the Granular Restore Option
- Appendix A. Backing up databases using Veritas System Recovery
- Appendix B. Backing up Active Directory
- Appendix C. Backing up Microsoft virtual environments
- Appendix D. Using Veritas System Recovery 21 and Windows Server Core
Using S3-Compatible Cloud Storage in Veritas System Recovery
You can use S3-compatible cloud storage that Veritas System Recovery can access.
To use S3-Compatible cloud storage in Veritas System Recovery
- Open the Cloud Instance Creator Utility using the command prompt in the administrator mode.
The Cloud Instance Creator Utility is located at the following path:
<VSR Installation folder>/Agent folder
- Create a cloud instance using the Cloud Instance Creator utility.
To create a cloud instance, you must pre-configure a user account and buckets in the cloud environment.
For S3, following is the example command
CloudInstance.exe -addinstance
CloudInstance Name: CloudInstance0001
CloudInstance Provider: compatible-with-s3
CloudInstance ServiceHost: s3.yourendpoint.com
SSL Supported <0/1/2>: 2
HTTP Port: 80
HTTPS Port: 443
Where ServiceHost is replaced with your cloud service host endpoint address.
Veritas System Recovery supports the SSL protocol. While creating a cloud instance you can decide to use the SSL protocol. It is recommended that SSL be set to be 2 (Full). SSL: 0 (disabled) and SSL: 1 (AuthenticationOnly).
Use 80 as the HTTP Port and 443 as the HTTPS Port. These are the default ports. You can change the ports as per your server settings.
Ensure that the S3-compatible cloud-based storage server has a Certificate Authority (CA)-signed certificate. Veritas System Recovery supports only CA-signed certificates while it communicates with the S3-compatible cloud storage in the SSL mode. If it does not have the CA-signed certificate, data transfer between Veritas System Recovery and the S3-compatible cloud provider may fail in the SSL mode.
- Create a new backup job in Veritas System Recovery and in the OpenStorage Destination dialog box select S3 as the server type and enter the details of the created cloud instance that can be used to access S3 compatible cloud.
For example, in Server Type, select S3 and in Server Name, enter compatible-with-s3:CloudInstance0001(cloudinstance provider:cloudinstance name)