You can use the Metallic software to back up and restore data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
Backups
Data You Can Back Up
Object storage repositories
Metadata of the object
ACLs of the object
Tags of the object
Backups You Can Perform
Full backups
Incremental backups
Synthetic full 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
Object storage repositories
Metadata of the object
ACLs of the object
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
The current location
A different region in AWS
The original bucket
A different bucket in the same cloud
The following cloud storage systems:
Azure Blob
Azure Files
Terminology
The following terminology applies to S3:
Term | Description |
|---|---|
access control list (ACL) | ACLs enable you to manage access to buckets and objects. Each bucket and object has an ACL attached to it as a subresource. It defines which AWS accounts or groups are granted access and the type of access. |
account | The entity that represents the data in a S3 storage account. You can configure multiple object storage repositories to manage multiple S3 storage accounts. |
bucket | The entity that represents a collection of S3 objects. |
content group | The entity that defines the S3 data to be backed up. |
object | The entity that represents a unit of storage in S3. |
object storage repository | The interface that backs up the S3 data. |