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If you’re a long-time reader of this weblog, you understand that I categorize some posts as “chocolate and peanut butter” in homage to an historic (1970 or so) collection of TV commercials for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Immediately, I’m completely happy to deliver you the newest such submit, combining AWS Backup and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Earlier than I dive into the specifics, let’s evaluate every service:
AWS Backup lets you automate and centrally handle your backups (learn my submit, AWS Backup – Automate and Centrally Handle Your Backups, for an in depth look). After you create policy-driven plans, you’ll be able to monitor the standing of on-going backups, confirm compliance, and discover/restore backups, all from a central console. We launched in 2019 with assist for Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon EFS file techniques, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes. After that, we added assist for EC2 cases, Amazon Aurora clusters, Amazon FSx for Lustre and Amazon FSx for Window File Server file techniques, Amazon Neptune databases, VMware workloads, Amazon DocumentDB clusters, and Amazon S3.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides you the options, efficiency, and APIs of NetApp ONTAP file techniques with the agility, scalability, safety, and resiliency of AWS (once more, learn my submit, New – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to study extra). ONTAP is an enterprise information administration product that’s designed to supply high-performance storage appropriate to be used with Oracle, SAP, VMware, Microsoft SQL Server, and so forth. Every file system helps multi-protocol entry and may scale as much as 176 PiB, together with inline information compression, deduplication, compaction, skinny provisioning, replication, and point-in-time cloning. We launched with a multi-AZ deployment kind, and launched a single-AZ deployment kind earlier this yr.
Chocolate and Peanut Butter
AWS Backup now helps Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file techniques. All the present AWS Backup options apply, and you’ll add this assist to an present backup plan or you’ll be able to create a brand new one.
Suppose I’ve a few ONTAP file techniques:
I’m going to the AWS Backup Console and click on Create Backup plan to get began:
I resolve to Begin with a template, and select Every day-Month-to-month-1yr-Retention, then click on Create plan:
Subsequent, I look at the Useful resource assignments part of my plan and click on Assign assets:
I create a useful resource task (Jeff-ONTAP-Assets), and choose the FSx useful resource kind. I can depart the task as-is so as to embrace all of my Amazon FSx volumes within the task, or I can uncheck All file techniques, after which select volumes on the file techniques that I confirmed you earlier:
I evaluate all of my selections, and click on Assign assets to proceed. My backups might be carried out in accord with the backup plan.
I also can create an on-demand backup. To do that, I go to the Protected assets web page and click on Create on-demand backup:
I select a quantity, set a one week retention interval for my on-demand backup, and click on Create on-demand backup:
The backup job begins inside seconds, and is seen on the Backup jobs web page:
After the job completes I can look at the vault and see my backup. Then I can choose it and select Restore from the Actions menu:
To revive the backup, I select one of many file techniques from it, enter a brand new quantity title, and click on Restore backup.
Additionally of Curiosity
We lately launched two new options for AWS Backup that you could be discover useful. Each options can now be used along side Amazon FSx for ONTAP:
AWS Backup Audit Supervisor – You should utilize this function to watch and consider the compliance standing of your backups. This may help you to satisfy enterprise and regulatory necessities, and allows you to generate experiences that you should use to exhibit compliance to auditors and regulators. To study extra, learn Monitor, Consider, and Exhibit Backup Compliance with AWS Backup Audit Supervisor.
AWS Backup Vault Lock – This function allows you to forestall your backups from being by chance or maliciously deleted, and in addition enhances safety in opposition to ransomware. You should utilize this function to make chosen backup values WORM (write-once-read-many) compliant. Upon getting finished this, the backups within the vault can’t be modified manually. You can even set minimal and most retention durations for every vault. To study extra, learn Improve the safety posture of your backups with AWS Backup Vault Lock.
Out there Now
This new function is on the market now and you can begin utilizing it in the present day in all areas the place AWS Backup and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP can be found.
— Jeff;
