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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. About the cloud storage
  4. About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type
  5. About protecting data in Amazon for long-term retention
  6. About protecting data in Amazon Glacier vault
  7. About backing up data to Amazon Glacier vault
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

About backing up data to Amazon Glacier vault

When a NetBackup backup job is run to back up data to use the GLACIER_VAULT storage class, the data is stored in the vault as a set of archives. The metadata is stored in an S3 bucket as STANDARD storage class objects as well as in the Amazon Glacier vault as set of archives.

Figure: Backing up to Amazon Glacier vault

Backing up to Amazon Glacier vault

Considerations:

  • If a backup fails due to network issues, the partially backed up data may reside in the vault and hence occupy storage space.

  • It is recommended using the LIFECYCLE storage class for moving data from other cloud storage classes to Glacier. See Protecting data using Amazon's cloud tiering . However, to move data from other cloud storage classes to GLACIER_VAULT, you must host a cloud media server and duplicate data through it. This step is done to avoid data-out cost. This workaround also applies to moving data from GLACIER_VAULT storage class to other cloud storage classes.

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