You can use the Metallic software to back up and restore Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances that are hosted by an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account.
The following guide is available for third-party marketplace users: Commvault in the AWS Marketplace.
Backups
Data You Can Back Up
EC2 instances
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes
Volumes that use either default or custom encryption
Data You Cannot Back Up
User data that is used while launching an Amazon EC2 instance
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
EBS instance store volumes
Backups You Can Perform
By default, all Amazon EBS snapshots are incremental.
Full backups
Incremental backups
Synthetic full backups
Streaming backups
IntelliSnap backups
Backup copies
Changed Block Tracking (CBT) backups
When You Can Perform Backups
On a schedule: The server plan that you assign manages scheduled backups
On demand: You can perform on-demand backups at any time
Restores
Data You Can Restore
Amazon EC2 instances
AWS resource tags
Guest files and folders
Attach restored volumes to a new instance or an existing instance
Backups You Can Use for Restores
The most recent backup: For example, restore the most recent backup to its original location
A backup from a specific date: For example, restore data to a point in time before it became unusable
Backups from a date range: For example, restore data that was accidentally deleted
Destinations You Can Restore To
A different location (out of place)
The current location (in place)
Azure destinations (cross-hypervisor restore)
VMware destinations (cross-hypervisor restore)