To specify the Amazon cloud settings to be used through the different backups and restores, go to the Cloud Settings tab of the Configure General Preferences option from the Administration tab.
In this section, you can specify the following default settings:
- Access Key - specify the access key generated in the security credentials of your Amazon S3 web console. For more information, click here.
- Secret Key - specify the secret key generated in the security credentials of your Amazon S3 web console. For more information, click here.
- Region - select the region where your information will be stored. You can find more information about these regions here.
- Bucket Name - define the name of the Amazon S3 bucket where your backup will be stored.
- SubFolder(s) (Optional) - specify where your backup will be stored or restored from. Consider the following situations:
- If the SubFolder field is left empty, the backup file will be saved in the root of the specified container.
- If the SubFolder field is populated with the name of a folder that does not exist on the storage container \ bucket, the folder will be created and the backup file will be saved to the specified Subfolder.
- Multiple SubFolders can be specified by separating each folder with a forward slash: MyFolder/MySubfolder/MyNestedFolder.
- The SubFolder field can contain static values as well as tokens like %instance%, %database%, %backuptype%, %policyguid%,and %timestamp%.
- Storage Class - select the storage class: Standard, Standard-IA, and OneZone-IA. This setting is optional. The default value is Standard.
- File Size - determine the minimal parts in bytes of the backup file sent to the bucket simultaneously. The minimal value is 1000000 bytes (1,000,000 bytes).
When Amazon cloud settings are set in the preferences, they can be used in backup and restore operations.