About Rackspace Cloud Files storage requirements
NetBackup Cloud Storage enables Veritas NetBackup to backup data to and restore data from Rackspace Cloud Files™.
Table: Rackspace Cloud Files requirements describes the details and requirements of Rackspace CloudFiles.
Table: Rackspace Cloud Files requirements
Requirement | Details |
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Rackspace Cloud Files accounts | You must obtain a Rackspace account. The account has a user name and password. You need to follow the Rackspace process to generate an access key. The user name and access key are required when you configure the storage server. |
Storage requirements | The following are the requirements for Rackspace CloudFiles:
You must have a NetBackup license that allows for cloud storage. You must have a Rackspace Cloud Files account user name and password. You must use NetBackup to create the cloud storage volume for your NetBackup backups. The volume that NetBackup creates contains a required Veritas Partner Key. If you use the Cloud Files interface to create the volume, it does not contain the partner key. Consequently, that volume cannot accept data from NetBackup. You can use the following characters in the volume name: Any of the 26 letters of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Latin-script alphabet, both uppercase (capital) letters and lowercase (small) letters. These are the same letters as the English alphabet. Any integer from 0 to 9, inclusive. Any of the following characters: '~!@#$%^&*()-
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See Rackspace storage server configuration options.
NetBackup supports the private clouds from the supported cloud providers.
See About private clouds from Rackspace.
