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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
  5. About the cloud storage
  7. About the Amazon S3 cloud storage API type
  9. Amazon S3 storage type requirements
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Amazon S3 storage type requirements

The following tables describes the details and requirements of Amazon S3 type cloud storage in NetBackup:

Table: Amazon cloud storage requirements

Requirement

Details

License requirement

You must have a NetBackup license that allows for cloud storage.

Vendor account requirements

You must obtain an account that allows you to create, write to, and read from the storage that your vendor provides.

Buckets

The following are the requirements for the Amazon storage buckets:

  • You can create a maximum of 100 buckets per Amazon account.

  • You can delete empty buckets using the Amazon AWS Management Console. However, you may not be able to reuse the names of the deleted buckets while creating buckets in NetBackup.

  • You can create buckets in any Amazon storage region that NetBackup supports.

  • If the bucket is being used by another user, it is not displayed in the list.

Bucket names

It is recommended that you use NetBackup to create the buckets that you use with NetBackup. The Amazon S3 interface may allow the characters that NetBackup does not allow. Consequently, by using NetBackup to create the buckets you can limit the potential problems.

The following are the NetBackup requirements for bucket names in the US Standard region.

  • The bucket name must be between 3 and 255 characters.

  • Any of the 26 lowercase (small) letters of the International Standards Organization (ISO) Latin-script alphabet. These are the same lowercase (small) letters as the English alphabet.

  • Any integer from 0 to 9, inclusive.

  • The following character (you cannot use this as the first character in the bucket name):

    Period (.), underscore (_), and dash (-).

    Dash -

    Exception: You cannot use a period (.) if you use SSL for communication. By default, NetBackup uses SSL for communication.

    See NetBackup cloud storage server connection properties.

The buckets are not available for use in NetBackup in the following scenarios:

  • If you have created the buckets in a region that NetBackup does not support.

  • The bucket name does not comply with the bucket naming convention.

  • Given permissions are not sufficient for the bucket. See Permissions required for Amazon S3 cloud provider user.

Number of disk pools

You can create a maximum of 90 disk pools. Attempts to create more than 90 disk pools generate a "failed to create disk volume, invalid request" error message.

Note:

You must have SSL enabled to communicate with Amazon AWS. The NetBackup backup job fails with a status code o f 87.

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