Create S3 Backup Job
Before creating a S3 backup job, you need to first add the Object Storage to Vinchin Backup & Recovery and get the object storage licensed for backup. Please refer to Object Storage for more information.
Step 1: Backup Source
First you need to select a target Object Storage from the Select Object Storage column for this backup job. It can be selected one or more object storage at the same time.
After selecting the target Object Storage, please select the files or folders you want to back up from the Backup Source column. In the Select Backup Object column, the files/folders could be selected by use the checkbox.
After selecting the files/folders, you can click More to set wildcard filter rules for the S3 backup job, this is optional.
In the Wildcard Filter dropdown list, you can choose None, Exclusion or Inclusion option.
None: backup all the selected files/folders which you've selected and do not use any filters.
Exclusion: backup all files except the ones to be excluded by exclusion filters.
Inclusion: only backup the files which will be matched by the inclusion filters.
In the Filter field, type a filter rule e.g.: *.docx and click Add to add it; multiple filters can be applied to a single backup job; * can match 0, 1 or multiple characters, ? can only match 1 character.
After setting the wildcard policy, please click on Next to continue.
Step 2: Backup Destination
In the Target Node dropdown list, you can select a backup node on which you want the backup data to be processed and stored.
In the Target Storage dropdown list, the storages which belong to the selected backup node can be selected.
When done selecting the backup storage, please click on Next button to continue.
Step 3: Advanced Strategy
General Strategy
In the General Strategy it including Schedule, Throttling Policy, Data Storage Policy, Retention Policy and Advanced Strategy.
To determine the backup window of this job, the Time Windows indicator can be a reference for you to determine in which time window the job should be scheduled.
In the Schedule field, you can configure the time schedule of the backup job, you can configure the job as a Backup as Scheduled job Once-off Backup job or an On Demand job.
For a once-off backup job, the job will only run for once, and only full backup will be performed. You only have to appoint a time of when to start the backup job in the Start Time field.
For a backup as scheduled job, you can schedule Full Backup, Incremental Backup and Differential Backup.
For an on demand job, you can run the Full Backup, Incremental Backup and Differential Backup manually in accordance with your requirements.
Here we take Full Backup with Incremental Backup as an example. By default, full backups will be scheduled on each Friday. And incremental backups will be scheduled each day (when the time point of a full backup is overlapped with an incremental backup, full backup will be taken, and the incremental backup with be taken on the next scheduled time point). This is the most commonly used strategy that we recommended. But if you want to customize the schedules according to your requirements, you can edit the settings for either full backups or incremental backups. For example, you can schedule full backups twice a month without repeating.
Please set the backup mode and backup schedule as per your actual demands, then please click on Next to continue.
After configuring the time schedules of the backups, next you can configure the Throttling Policy, the throttling policy settings are optional, only if the backup jobs will bring network or I/O overload to your production environment, you can configure the throttling policy accordingly.
There are 3 options in Data Storage Policy section, Data Compression and Data Encryption.
By enabling Data Compression, you can save the bandwidth. By enabling Data Encryption, the backup data will be encrypted and then stored into the backup storage .
For the retention policy of the S3 backup, there are 2 retention mode, retain backups according to Number of Restore Points or Number of Days.
For the retention mode Number of Restore Points, Vinchin Backup Server will save the specified number of restore points. If you choose to retain the backups by number of restore points, the number will be counted by full restore points.
For retention mode Number of Days, Vinchin Backup Server will save the restore points within the specified number of days.
When the retention policy is triggered, the outdated restore points will be purged to comply with the retention policy.
Advanced Strategy contains transfer threads and scan threads. You can set 1 to 32 transfer/ scan threads for a single backup job. Increasing the number of threads can improve backup job efficiency, but multi-threading will occupy the resources of the server, so the number of threads should be set reasonably according to the actual situation.
Users can set the transfer and scan thread number to 1. And when the scan thread has been set to 1, users also able to configure the scan speed.
The scan speed can be configured with Very Fast, Fast, Normal, Slow and Very Slow options to balance the server performance and backup speed.
Transmission Strategy
For S3 backup, the backup data can be transferred through Encrypted Transfer feature by using Backup Proxy, the Retry Attempts and Retry Interval can allow jobs to be retried the times you set at the same interval.
Advanced Strategy
Skip Ojbjects Alert can be activated for generating jobs alerts when skipped files reach the set number or percentage.
Step 4: Review & Confirm
After completing the above-mentioned settings, you are able to review and confirm the S3 backup job settings in one screen.
You can give this job a customized name then click on Submit to finish creating this S3 backup job.