Configuring NetBackup for Amazon Snowball with Amazon Snowball client
In this method data is first staged on the NetBackup media server and then using the Amazon Snowball client, data is moved to the Amazon Snowball device.
Ensure that you have enough space on the file system you plan to use for staging.
To configure NetBackup to transfer data to Amazon Snowball using the Amazon Snowball client
- Create the cloud storage server with default instance.
Note:
An Amazon Snowball device can be used to transfer data only from the region from where the device is obtained. Thus, ensure that all the buckets in storage server belong to same region.
Create different bucket(s) for Amazon Snowball when you configure the disk pool. These buckets are used to create an import job in the AWS console.
Note:
It is recommended to create the buckets from the NetBackup web UI. However, if you create buckets from the AWS console, ensure that only characters that are supported by NetBackup are used.
- Create an import job in the AWS console. Select the buckets that were created during the disk pool creation. Refer to the AWS documentation for detailed steps.
- Ensure that the media server has enough space to stage the backup data.
- Update the following storage server properties:
AMZ:OFFLINE_TRANSFER_MODE: FILESYSTEM
AMZ:TRANSFER_DRIVE_PATH: <absolute path where the data must be backed up>
Note:
Set these properties back to NONE after you have transferred the data to the Amazon Snowball device.
- For live data, create the storage lifecycle policy, backup policy and run the backup for initial seeding.
For old data, use the bpduplicate command and duplicate the images on the storage unit.
See the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide.
- Install the Amazon Snowball client on the media server. Refer to the AWS documentation for detailed steps.
Using the Amazon Snowball client, transfer the backup data from the media server to the Amazon Snowball device.
- After the data transfer is complete:
Deactivate the backup policy or postpone the secondary operation processing in the SLP till the device is in transit.
Set the storage server properties you have configured in step 4 to NONE.
- Ship the device to the cloud vendor. Refer to the AWS documentation for detailed steps.
After the backup job is complete, the backup data is staged on the media server. Then run the Amazon Snowball client copy command to transfer the data to the Amazon Snowball device: Following is an example:
snowball cp --recursive <TransferDrivePath/MyBucket/Image> s3://MyBucket/Logs
Refer to the AWS documentation for detailed steps.