Amazon S3 cloud destination

Once you have created a backup job, you can modify its settings using the Manage screen's Edit option.

This allows you to change selections that were made when the job was created. There are also options that are not available when you create a backup job.

To modify a backup job:

1. Select BackupAssist's Backup tab
2. Select Manage Backup Jobs
3. Select the backup job that you want to change.
4. Select Edit from the top menu
5. Select the part of the job you want to change from the list on the left
6. Once you have made the required changes, select Apply changes

There are 8 standard Edit options, similar to the steps completed during the backup job creation. There may also be backup specific options.

• Amazon S3 bucket

Enter a name for your S3 bucket. BackupAssist will use this name to create the bucket. Provide a different name for each job, because a different bucket must be used by each backup job. This name must follow the conventions explained in Amazon's naming guide.

• Amazon S3 Region

Select the region for the data center where you want your cloud storage to be based.

Note: Seeding is only supported for us-east-1, us-west-1, us-west-2, eu-west-1, ap-southeast-1. To learn more see Amazon S3 seeding

• Access Key ID & Secret Access Key

For this step, you will need to open the csv file that you saved when you created the IAM user account that this job will use. This csv file contains the Access Key ID and Secret Access key.

Copy these keys from the csv file to the fields provided.

Note: If you plan to seed your backup, you will need these keys for the seeding process, so you will need to record the Secret Access Key for later use because the secret access key can only be retrieved when it is created.

• Encryption Password

Cloud Backup uses encryption to protect your data. Enter and confirm an encryption password. This password will be needed if you perform a restore.

Note: It is important that you keep a copy of your password in a safe place, as we cannot retrieve passwords if they are lost or forgotten.

• Check destination

Select the Check destination button. This important step uses the information provided to test the connection to the cloud destination, and then creates the cloud container that the backup job will use.