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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. Protecting data with Amazon Snowball and Amazon Snowball Edge
  6. Using multiple Amazon S3 adapters
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Using multiple Amazon S3 adapters

To improve write performances to the Amazon Snowball device, multiple Amazon S3 adapters can be configured. Also, multiple custom instances can point to the same the device.

To use multiple Amazon S3 adapter

  1. For each Amazon Snowball adapter create one custom cloud storage instance.
  2. Transfer data to the Amazon Snowball device.
  3. Delete the custom instance with Amazon S3 adapter IP as service host. Run the following command:

    csconfig cldinstance -r -in <instance-name>

    See the NetBackup Command Reference Guide.

  4. Add all the storage servers that are created for the Amazon Snowball device into the default cloud instance (amazon.com). Run the following command:

    csconfig cldinstance -as -in amazon.com -sts <storage-server-name>

  5. Update the following storage server property:

    AMZ:OFFLINE_TRANSFER_MODE: NONE

    See NetBackup cloud storage server connection properties.

  6. Change SSL settings (if performed) for the storage servers.

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